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Re: Jaws and Window Eyes info needed

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From: deblist@suberic.net
Date: Nov 14, 2009 8:30AM

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Birkir Gunnarsson wrote:
> 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.

Birkir,

The argument here was exactly the opposite. Everybody on this
list thinks it's vital to test products in realistic settings and
we're furious at Freedom Scientific for making it more difficult.

Personally I've learned I need to test in JAWS to learn my users'
experiences, because most of them use JAWS, just as most
screenreader users elsewhere in the world do. If I test in
Window-Eyes and NVDA I get a different experience of the page,
and when I'm trying to make sure error messages appear at the
appropriate time that difference is vitally important to know
about.

(By the way, any folks with disablities on this list who'd like
to be involved in open source programming or testing let me know!
My project has a mostly-disabled accessibility team and we always
love more.)

-deborah