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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Feb 7, 2012 10:24AM

I agree with Thomas' list of screenreaders. The one I go to most is JAWS,
while NVDA gives you the opposite end of the spectrum (free and most
simple, doesn't support WAI-ARIA to the extent of JAWS etc.). Mac users
will use VoiceOver (including iPhone and iPad as well as macbooks)


WebAIM have a WAVE toolbar for Firefox which is handy. Not something you'd
rely on 100% but will quickly find simple things like missing alt
attributes and bad heading structures.

The last time I saw voice recognition being used in user testing, the user
had Dragon. That was a few years ago, anyone else seen what speech to text
users use these days?


Thanks,

Dawn

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From: "McKeithan, Thomas" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:59 PM

To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

Subject: Re: [WebAIM] List of Top Accessibility Tools


For screen readers, I'd suggest, Jaws, Windoweyes and one open source
(NVDA).


Respectfully,

Thomas Lee McKeithan II

Accessibility Program Manager

National Industries for the Blind

1310 Braddock Place

Alexandria, VA 22314

(703)310-0586 Direct

(202)276-6437 Cell

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