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Re: Jaws and Window Eyes info needed

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From: Birkir Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 14, 2009 8:15AM

Geoff

True, but my point is that if you can access a page with System Access you
can as well or better with Jaws, so SA can be your lowest accessibility
denominator. If it takes a screen reader like Jaws to access a web page and
you can´t access it with a less "fancy" piece of software it clearly shows
there is an accessibility problem in the pages design.

It's like saying you need photo shop pro to check if a .jpg file works
rather than just opening it in Internet Explorer.

I would not like to see web designers using the all-to-familiar (and true)
Freedom Scientific products are awful and they won´t allow us to test our
page so we don´t have to, argument to absolve themselves of the
responsibility for testing their web pages, because there are free options
out there for doing that, and that was my point.

Cheers
-B