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Re: Jaws and Window Eyes info needed

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Nov 14, 2009 8:45AM

Point taken. :O)

cheers

Geof
At 10:12 AM 11/14/2009, you wrote:
>Geoff
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>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.
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>It's like saying you need photo shop pro to check if a .jpg file works
>rather than just opening it in Internet Explorer.
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>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.
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>Cheers
>-B
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