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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Apr 10, 2012 12:06PM

Hello:
there would be no point in determining that a screen reader user is accessing your website because every single screen reader works differently than the other. You can't go out and detect every single competitive screen reader and expect to have a modified version of your website. So are you going to code your tables differently for JAWS then you would with chrome vox? Are you going to make your website change to voiceover compatible or are you going to work with NVDA or window eyes. Maybe the visitor is using guide or the full supernova suite.

It's none of our business what the person is using to access our website I know there are people out there still using links but we don't code for that either. I know it's already been said on this thread but equal access means you made a good site that works for as many people as possible. Who cares what screen reader they're using. Who cares if they're using a screen reader the website should work and work for everyone. I don't want Amazon to know if I'm blind or not I don't want you to know if I'm blind or not I just want you to consider me a potential visitor to your website and make it work.

Once all this is been said and done as a trainer I need to be able to test something at home on my machine and understand how it works then go to a client system and not have any surprises because they might be using an earlier version of the screen reader or the browser or the OS.

Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu