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I need some help with #nvda & #wikipedia.
I'm assisting a blind student in learning how to navigate the web using a laptop.
NVDA reads out the title first, then properties about the document, then the summary box on the side.
I can't find any way to skip that whole box and move straight to the main content. There is no main content landmark, nor is there a heading, not is it in the Contents section.
Take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall as an example. How can I navigate to the first sentence of the main article?
Thanks for any help.
#blind #accessibility

US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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in reply to Jakra

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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When you say the summary box, I assume you mean the big table? Once you encounter the table (soon after the main heading), you can press , (comma) to skip the table and thus get to the main section.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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To clarify, , (comma) means "move past the end of a container element, such as a list or table".
in reply to Jakra

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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I'm a bit confused. When I load the article you provided, the first thing I hear with NVDA is:

"This is a good article. Click here for more information.
Page semi-protected"

Using the arrow keys, I can browse down to the rest of the content of the page.

Pressing 'h' will take you to the first heading present on that page, which is "Thurgood Marshall" at heading level 1. Subsequent presses of 'h' will take you to other sections and subsections including the table of contents.
in reply to Pratik Patel

Jakra
Jakra
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@ppatel after the first heading is a table. After the table is some text, but no heading. I couldn’t work out how to skip the table, but another user @jcsteh pointed out that the comma key will skip the current container, which is exactly what I needed.
It’s be better if either a landmark or header took you to the beginning paragraph after the table, but this’ll do.
@Pratik Patel @Jamie Teh
in reply to Jakra

Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@ppatel Yeah, it's a bit of a challenge because technically, the table is part of the main article, which is why it's inside the main landmark and under the main heading. It's also unclear what heading you'd give the intro paragraph after the table. But yes, I agree it's problematic, especially for less experienced screen reader users.
@Pratik Patel
in reply to Jamie Teh

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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@jcsteh I always felt that Wikipedia's intro was structurally screwed up. There should have been article title followed by a second heading. Call it "introduction" or whatever followed by the summary text then followed by those tables.
@Jamie Teh
in reply to Jamie Teh

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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@jcsteh It's almost as if someone sat down and asked: how do we get search engines to recognize this structured data?
@Jamie Teh
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