Working with Headers
In this activity you will edit an HTML document to make it easier to navigate using a screen reader.
You’ve already seen how document structure such as headers enable screen reader users to skim through the document. If a document is not properly structured, the user must step through each element.
The document below is a simplified HTML version of Wikipedia’s biography of Alan Turing. Unlike the actual Wikipedia page, this HTML version is poorly structured.
Edit the above file to add the appropriate structure. Once that's done, press the play button below to simulate how a test screen reader user would navigate the page. Try to reduce the number of key presses needed.
I'd like to learn about Alan Turing's life...
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematican, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. ...
Early life and education
Family
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing (1873-1947), was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service...
School
Turing's parents enrolled him at St Michael's, a primary school at 20 Charles Road...
University and work on computability
After Sherborne, Turing studied as an undergraduate from 1931 to 1934 at King's College, Cambridge...
Career and research
Cryptanalysis
During the Second World War, Turing was a leading participant in the breaking of German ciphers at Bletchley Park...
Bombe
Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had specified an electromechanical machine called the bombe, which could break Enigma more effectively than the Polish bomba kryptologiczna, from which its name was derived.
Early computers and the Turing test
Between 1945 and 1947, Turing lived in Hampton, London, while he worked on the design of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Personal life
Engagement
In 1941, Turing proposed marriage to Hut 8 colleague Joan Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst, but their engagement was short-lived...
Conviction for indecency
In January 1952, Turing was 39 when he started a relationship with Arnold Murray, a 19-year-old unemployed man. Just before Christmas, Turing was walking along Manchester's Oxford Road when he met Murray just outside the Regal Cinema and invited him to lunch...
Death
On 8 June 1954, at his house at 43 Adlington Road, Wilmslow, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. He had died the previous day at the age of 41. Cyanide poisoning was established as the cause of death...