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Re: Hardware and Software required for Accessibility Testing

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From: deblist
Date: Dec 3, 2009 7:45AM

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Sam S wrote:
> Are any other assistive devices such also needed to carry out accessibility
> testing for persons with motor disabilities ?

I would recommend also testing speech recognition (at a minimum
Dragon NaturallySpeaking, but preferably also Windows 7 speech
recognition and Mac speech dictate) and Firefox Mouseless
Browsing. These are heavily used by many people with motor
disabilities.

-deborah