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From: tedd
Date: Mar 3, 2007 12:10PM

Hi:

This is my first post to this forum, so if what I'm asking is not
appropriate, please let me know.

Here goes, I am trying to understand how a screen reader works. Not
so much as to the technology surrounding character recognition, but
how the user interacts and uses buttons, links, edit fields and such
web events.

Can anyone provide personal experience as to how all this works?

Please don't tell me to go to a site like Jaws' web site and read,
because I don't have Jaws and the tutorials and such there don't help
much.

My reason for asking is that I'm a web programmer who is trying to
understand disability issues.

You may contact me off-list, if you wish.

Thanks for your attention and time.

Cheers,

tedd

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