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Peter Krantz - January 10th, 2005
"A while ago I read the article “Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites“. In that article the authors report that visually impaired users scan web pages with their ears instead of reading them top to bottom. This may not come as a surprise to you if you read Jakob Nielsen’s “How Users Read on the Web” back in 1997. Recently I have had the opportunity to study a number of screen reader users and my observations are similar. (...)
So, here are some suggestions you can use to improve the browsing experience for visually impaired users:
Use headings god dammit!"
Post about how screen readers work, and designing websites to work with them.
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