WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Something's amiss with the latest survey

for

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Sep 1, 2015 8:18PM

This is great information Jared, thanks for digging in on those details.
AWK




On 9/1/15, 16:50, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Jared Smith" < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>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
>>>>