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Re: Character reference chart for JAWS, Window-Eyes

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 18, 2012 12:08PM

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Bevi Chagnon wrote:
> Does anyone know how accurate the data is?
>
> http://www.accessibleculture.org/research-files/character-references/jaws-we
> -all.php#arrows

I went through the characters with JAWS 13 with IE9 and Firefox. The
findings presented in the table are entirely accurate with the default
verbosity settings in both browsers. Of note is that many of the
symbols are not read and some are read incorrectly. Nothing has
changed since this was last tested in 2008 with JAWS 9.

For comparison, I went through the characters with VoiceOver on Safari
and *all* of the characters were appropriately identified.

Jared Smith
WebAIM