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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Sep 11, 2013 11:40AM

Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:

> Just remember that Chrome Vox use, as reported by the latest WebAIM
> screen reader survey, was less then .5%, Voiceover around 12%, NVDA
> around 14% and Jaws still in the 50% range.


Whilst completely agreeing with Olaf's comment about priorities (missing
the wheels!), I think more people should notice how much VoiceOver on iOS
is used these days.

From the Webaim survey [1], VoiceOver on iOS is the second most used
screenreader at around 42% of people who answered.

I base that on 72% of people using a mobile screenreader, and of those
58.5% use iOS. Therefore 42% use VoiceOver on iOS.

Now, it is not necessarily the primary screenreader by any means, and you
could argue that people use apps more than the browser, but still, makes
you think!

I checked back on that stat after talking to several regular screen reader
users who said things like "I don't bother opening the laptop much anymore,
I just use my iPhone".

It would be interesting to include VoiceOver/iOS as an option for "primary
screen reader" next year.

1] http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/#mobile

-Alastair