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Re: JAWS cursor doesn't work in Firefox or Chrome

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From: Ron Stewart
Date: Feb 5, 2015 12:30PM

On the inverse a sites functionality with JAWS also does not insure that the
site is accessible. JAWS is a very powerful and very expensive software
program, that can brute force its way through accessibility errors in a
site. For the visually impaired I actually recommend you do your testing
with NVDA, Voiceover and perhaps CromeVox. You also need to insure the site
will work for other users of assistive technology such as Voice Recognition
users and users of alternative input devices. The first step is to insure
that the site is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant but also that it is tested by actual
users of AT.

I have reviewed quite a variety of sites that worked with a screen reader,
but when colors were inverted such as for a low vision user significant
portions of the content disappeared. Or that they could be effectively
navigated by someone with a sensory disability but a user with mobility
issues could not effectively navigate the site with their voice or their
screen based keyboard.

Ron Stewart