Monday, July 11, 2005

Access Matters - Screen Readers and CSS Layout

"Today’s screen readers speak the content in the order it is written in the HTML."

It's great to have someone who actually has screen readers available verify this. This also means that fangs will be a reasonable approximation of most screenreaders. So the most important thing to consider with regards to standards based layouts and accessibility is source code order and appropriate use of "skip links". That doesn't sound so hard.

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