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Re: Request for a screenreader test

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From: smithj7@peoplepc.com
Date: Jan 23, 2009 2:55PM

Do you have a window eye's users to test as well? Recently, I made a flash presentation that worked with JAWS 10 and didn't work with Windows Eyes. I did it in the old version of presentor with a very clean powerpoint.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Hamack
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Request for a screenreader test


Excellent. That's what I wanted to hear. That means developers can add all
those fancy characters with CSS, rather than including them in the code. But
as usual, the only problem is Internet Explorer.


On 1/22/09 5:58 PM, "Mackenzie, Hamish" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi
>
> checked with Jaws 10 and all is good.
>
> Regs
>
> H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dean Hamack
> Sent: Friday, 23 January 2009 12:45 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Request for a screenreader test
>
> A while back, someone posted a link to an article called "The Sound of
> the Accessible Title Text Separator". That got me thinking how annoying
> it must be to have to listen to "right double angle bracket" and "left
> double angle bracket" over and over again.
>
> So I've created a test page that uses CSS to write the characters in. I
> know it won't work on Internet Explorer, but I'm wondering if someone
> who uses Firefox in conjunction with a screen reader can test this page
> out and see if the screenreader still announces the characters:
>
> http://bushidodesigns.net/test/sc.htm
>
>
>