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Re: Help with Echo accessibility

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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Oct 25, 2010 8:00PM

He said he was using Firefox. Firefox doesn't work with VO. So I thought
maybe I could help him get it to work with Firefox and JAWS to compare
the difference. That was all.

Carin

On 25/10/2010 9:15 PM, Ron Stewart wrote:
> You use JAWS and sorry to say what that does have to do with an accessible
> interface?
>
> As I have stated so many time before this is one of the major problems when
> content creators try to use JAWS as their measure of accessibility. What you
> get is a measure of JAWS accessibility which has very little to do with
> actual measurements of the accessibility and the functional usability of a
> given interface from an UAI level.
>
> Each screen reader will deal with the user interface differently and if it
> does not work as you expected then that is a design error not an
> accessibility problem.
>
>