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From: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL
Date: Sep 2, 2015 7:03AM

Really useful Jared! Thank you!



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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrew Kirkpatrick
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Something's amiss with the latest survey

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
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