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Re: JAWS Accordion test

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From: Steve Green
Date: Mar 23, 2009 9:50AM

In my experience they read one line at a time, although they may use other
strategies in addition, such as using the links list, heading list or
jumping to headings.

'SayAll' mode, which is the mode where JAWS reads continuously, is not
particularly useful for most tasks because the semantic structure is not
read out in this mode and it is impossible to build a mental model of the
page. It is really only useful for reading large blocks of text, but even
then I have not seen anyone use it.

To a large extent I expect it depends how the user was trained, and maybe
someone who has not received any training may tend to use it more because
JAWS switches to SayAll mode each time a new page loads.

Steve