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Re: Monitoring JAWS adoption trends for testing/support

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Feb 21, 2007 3:20AM

Alastair Campbell wrote:

"There are hundreds of possible technologies that people can use, each with their own interaction style. Using only one could lead you to make design choices in one particular way. That way may not help people using other technologies."

I'd absolutely agree with Alastair's comments and add to them by saying that one person may use multiple access technologies. I use different versions of Jaws for different tasks, I sometimes use a different screen reader all together.

Designing for just one version of one specific access tech can very easily become counter productive from the user's point of view.

Regards,
Léonie.