Stephen J. Turnbull Wrote:
Andrew Hodgson writes:
When navigating through the tabs you are hearing two iterations of the tab, the first for example saying "Held Messages 0 tab" which is not a link, but then if you arrow down past that you hear "Held Messages 0" which is advertised as a link and if you hit enter on those it changes the page to the requested view.
I don't think we have accessibility specialists among the developers, although several of us care deeply about it. So I'd like to confirm: the two iterations, one telling you you are on a tab, the other telling you you have a link, is a good thing? Would it be better if you got one notification that there is a tab with a link on it?
Yes, if we could just get one notification that would be a lot better. Each notification has to be arrowed through, so with the current setup you have to arrow twice to get to the option for the next tab. One better way of navigating the system once you get familiarity with the layout is to get the screen reader to show you all links on a page, then just use the arrow keys to get to the link you want. This doesn't repeat anything and is the way I was navigating in the end after getting familiar with the pages.
Andrew.