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Accessibility in Practice with the Accessibilibats

Software Unscripted

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Screen Reader Users - Predictability

Sharbel: I think one of the things that was maybe not surprising but interesting to me was once you start digging in and realizing that there are things like a tab panel role. We use those roles to indicate what people are getting visually so they will hear this is a tab panel. Then they know exactly what's going to happen when they press a certain key. And another really easy example for anyone to understand is headings on a page. If we're sighted, we are skimming web pages constantly to find what we need. So by using semantic headings, by using markup that says here are the headings and we're also giving those same affordances to screen reader users which

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