[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

[Samantha Bailey]

This doesn't advance the right side nav debate, but I thought I'd share an
experience we've had with usability testing and accessibility. One of the
issues we've had with blind users in usability tests and our left navigation
is that blind users have grown frustrated having to listen to the full left
nav repeated on every page. JAWS has an option to bypass these, but not all
blind or low-vision users are savvy enough with JAWS to use that feature.
One thing we've tried is moving the navigation options to the bottom on our
text-only pages (our CMS enables us to have a text-only version of every
page without having to duplicate any content).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alice Preston" <aliceflute at hotmail.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation


> At the recent UPA conference in Minneapolis, there were several
discussions
> of accessibility issues, for both blind and partially sighted users.  For
> those using screen magnifiers, all content to the right tends to vanish.
The
> users tested in two mentioned studies had evolved strategies for dealing
> with this (which sometimes made the usability testers seasick), including
> zooming out to see structure and then back in to read, panning quickly,
and
> so on. But the fact remained for many of them, anything placed at the
right
> side of the screen would not be seen.
>
> Alice Preston
> Telcordia Technologies
> Piscataway, NJ  USA
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