Inclusive Dialog Design?
October 26, 2020January 16, 2021
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Introduction
I happened upon and was impressed by Adrian Roselli’s post, “Dialog Focus in Screen Readers”. His testing set me a line of thought current to my consistent theme of questioning why we make our screen readers’ experience so difficult by design?
Adrian includes links to four posts on the topic by by Scott O’Hara from 2016 to 2019. The dates catch my attention. Are we discussing an acceptable web design pattern, or proliferating the ableism of yore? I replied to Adrian’s post with the following comment and set forward some thinking. I commented [...]