People develop strategies to cope with commonalities between sites. For example, someone using a screen reader call up a list of links to find something specific on a page.

Sites can optimise for them, however, it is a duanting task to work out what they all are. This wiki (area) intends to document these strategies across different abilities and technologies.

We may find that there are optimal strategies across many sites, but people may need help in discovering it. Another outcome could be that web developers/designers can optimse for particular strategies, in the same way that we currently optimise things visually.

This would also form a good the basis for what different profiles should be, thus enabling sites to start personalisation.

It would also be great to document the extreme lengths that people go through to accomplish things when using inaccessible websites, although that might be better completed as an easy to fill in form that goes into a DB?

I suggest starting by technology categories, making them links as we document them:

Screen reader

Overview, typical sets of strategies when arriving at a website.

• Links lists.
• Skim through a site's homepage first, before moving onto other strategies.
• Skipping navigation.
• Skim headings.
• Within page search

Screen magnifier

• Zoom out before zooming in.
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Browser based modifications

• Adjusting colour scheme and fonts.
• Adjusting layout.

Keyboard access (visual)

• Tabbing through links.

Non-technology based optimisations