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Re: When will developers be able to rely on ARIA?

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Mar 10, 2009 8:50AM

On 4 Mar 2009, at 15:30, Jared Smith wrote:

> Based on our screen reader survey results, it appears that most screen
> reader users have relatively up-to-date browsers and screen readers.
> I'd say the vast majority of them have ARIA compatible user agents
> now.

This probably varies from population to population. From what I can
gather from our technology support call logs and the experiences of
support staff here at the National Council for the Blind of Ireland
(NCBI), the breakdown of versions used by Jaws users is roughly as
follows:

Jaws versions 5 to 7 = 65%.
Jaws versions 6 to 8 = 25%.
Jaws versions 9 or 10 = 10%.

I'm not familiar with which versions are ARIA compatible. Perhaps
someone could enlighten me.

If we class a Screen Reader as Just Speech, Jaws accounts for 99.9% of
NCBI sales.
If we class a Screen Reader as Speech with Magnification, Jaws
accounts for 52%, Zoomtext Mag/Reader for 25% and Supernova for 23%.

Almost nobody in Ireland uses Window Eyes.

Mark

Dr. Mark Magennis
Director of the Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)
NCBI (National Council for the Blind of Ireland)
Whitworth Road, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland

Tel: +353 (0)71 914 7464
www.cfit.ie



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