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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jun 3, 2014 5:02PM

Hello:
this is a very interesting topic to me. I met with a few people at CSUN
to talk about how we could improve this particular problem. Unfortunately
speech recognition currently does not interact with the source code in any
way and does not interpret rendered webpages.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the most commonly used speech recognition
package for both Mac and PC. However, Dragon does not recognize elements
on the web similar to screen readers. This case is an example of
sometimes the screen reader user has a better experience than the
non-screen reader user. If I am using J-say the bridging application
between jaws and Dragon I'm able to do much more on the web than a Dragon
only user. For example since JAWS recognizes elements that are coded to
be buttons using the aria role of button I can say click the button and
Dragon will do so. However Dragon does not recognize the aria role and
the element is not seen as a button to Dragon so saying click the button
will do nothing in the case of a dragon only user.

In the last release of Dragon Nuance included some support for accessing
Gmail but none of that was able to be used anywhere else on the web.

The group of us at CSUN did not have enough time to talk more than just
outlining the problem. We need to encourage Nuance to start incorporating
recognition for HTML 5 and aria in their product. It's very difficult for
a speech input user to work with any controls currently on the web without
appropriate labeling and we've begun the uphill climb for labeling for
screen readers I can't imagine how long it will be for speech input users.

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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