Accessibility Widgets Are Not Enough for Screen-Reader Users

Summary: Website accessibility widgets add little value in making your site accessible to users with partial or no vision.

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Tanner Kohler is a Principal Experience Specialist with Nielsen Norman Group. Tanner's studies have focused on social psychology, and he has researched theories of human motivation and the gamification of learning. He has developed, taught, and evaluated curricula for thousands of full-time volunteers for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He has an MS degree in instructional psychology and technology.

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