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Re: JAWS and JavaScript

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Mar 6, 2009 1:25PM

All of them have javascript enabled as they generally use IE or Firefox.
Lynx is harder than other things to use with JAWS.




-----Original Message-----
From: Al Sparber [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:20 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS and JavaScript

From: "Seth Kane" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> Does anyone have any good statistics on how many users that use JAWS 9

> or above have JavaScript enabled/disabled. I am just trying to get
> some numbers.

Jaws cannot be reliably identified so any stats would likely be pure
guesses - or based on direct surveys. That said, I would venture to
guess that many more Jaws users have javascript enabled than able-bodied
folks.