Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

User Experience Narrative 1: The National Public Radio Site

Let’s look more closely at an example. Like the U.S. government’s old disability information site, National Public Radio’s site offers a text-only link in the upper-left corner of the page (Figure 8-3).

Figure 8-3. Screen shot of the home page for National Public Radio. A link to the text-only version of the site appears in tiny letters in the upper-left corner of the screen. Accessed July 21, 2001, at http://www.npr.org. Used with permission.

Listening to NPR’s Home Page

Here’s how the JAWS screen reader speaks the first 23 items on the main page of NPR’s site.

NPR hahmapage

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