[Evergreen-web-team] [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] A couple patches for Server Installation Instructions

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Alexey,

> Maybe things have changed, but as I recall from a few years back screen readers used by visually impaired people often summarize the links on a web page by reading them out and skipping other content. In the cases where there are multiple links like "Read more" or "Learn more", which rely on visual proximity to other elements that provide context, users of screen readers are not presented with the same context. Also, special characters used there, in this case I think guillemets, would be read out. If there is agreement that this is an issue that should be addressed, I would suggest removing those buttons and the "Learn more »" text altogether and just linking the text above.

I could be mistaken, but I think that's only a problem when using an 
image for a button. I looked at the code and, in this case, the buttons 
are standards links that are using CSS to style them as buttons.

Kathy


On 10/11/2013 11:06 AM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote:
> On 2013-10-10, at 17:28 , Anoop Atre <aatre at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>
>> I also have implemented a small change to make the contrast better based on Aleksey's suggestion a while back. That had also been on my to-do list since we went live.
> Thanks. I think it's quite a bit easier to identify the links in page content now.
>
> Is seems like as a side-effect of that change, the text within the "Learn more" buttons on the front page http://evergreen-ils.org/ is now also underlined. For a second, I wanted to suggest a change in CSS to address this, but then I realized that there may be a larger issue with those buttons.
>
> Maybe things have changed, but as I recall from a few years back screen readers used by visually impaired people often summarize the links on a web page by reading them out and skipping other content. In the cases where there are multiple links like "Read more" or "Learn more", which rely on visual proximity to other elements that provide context, users of screen readers are not presented with the same context. Also, special characters used there, in this case I think guillemets, would be read out. If there is agreement that this is an issue that should be addressed, I would suggest removing those buttons and the "Learn more »" text altogether and just linking the text above.
>
> Also (it's been a while since I looked at this stuff) I think crawlers tend to rank content more highly if there is a correspondence between the link text and the title text of the resource they link to.
>
> Aleksey
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