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Re: Something's amiss with the latest survey

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 1, 2015 2:50PM

Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> I think that it would be very interesting to see a
> breakdown of top primary AT used by end-users
> who place themselves into the different categories.

I've added some details on this to the survey.

For respondents that report having low vision, 53.5% use ZoomText,
16.5% use JAWS, 12.2% use Window-Eyes, 8.7% use NVDA, and 4.6% use
VoiceOver. I don't think the ZoomText numbers here are very
surprising. 3.5% report using Other, which is where MAGic would be
accounted for.

For respondents that report blindness, 38.9% use JAWS, 26.5% use
Window-Eyes, 16.9% use NVDA, 8.7% use VoiceOver, and 4.6% use
ZoomText.

ZoomText was also more commonly used by users with auditory, motor,
and cognitive disabilities than by users with blindness.

There's no doubt that an increased number of respondents with low
vision and other disabilities notably changed the screen reader
percentages. However, despite someone's claim that the low vision
ZoomText users "ruined" the survey, when you compare responses to the
other survey questions from those who report blindness vs. those who
report low vision, or JAWS users vs. ZoomText users, there really are
few notable differences. The most notable difference is in mobile
screen reader usage - 80.2% of blind respondents use a mobile screen
reader compared to only 52.8% of low vision users. This likely
accounts for much of the overall decline in mobile screen reader
usage.

Thanks for prompting me to look further into these aspects of the survey data.

Jared