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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: May 29, 2003 Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites -- "These users are just as impatient as sighted users. They want to get the information they need as quickly as possible. That means that they do not listen to every word on the page - just as sighted users don't read every word. They 'scan with their ears' just as sighted users scan with their eyes." (Comments: From the latest STC SIG)
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Recently I was observing someone using the JAWS screen reader browser to book a channel island holiday. He quickly located the search box which contained the text "enter text here". There was some JavaScript code to remove the text on entry, but of course JavaScript doesn't work with JAWS so when he hit the search button what he actually searched for (unbeknownst to him) was "jerseyenter text here", which return a load of unrelated and useless results. Posted by: Tom Smith on May 29, 2003 11:05 AM
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