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From: Sean Murphy
Date: Aug 4, 2016 10:17PM

Single screen reader and single browser does not give the best result in your testing. Jaws and NVDA works different with each browser. Thus to get the best result, you should test both screen readers with both browsers. Chrome isn't well supported with screen reader's at this current time.

My work uses only Jaws with IE and Firefox for our testing. I do fall back on to NVDA when I want to validate issues to make sure it isn't Jaws or the browser.

Sean



As Jim stated, some companies focuses on a single screen reader like Jaws.
> On 4 Aug 2016, at 11:10 PM, Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi,
> We use NVDA and Firefox here, but if a company's standard is, for example, JAWS and IE, we double check with that combination. As far as I am aware, NVDA depends the most on the accessibility information from the browser, and Firefox uses it the most. We think that gives us the purest test results.
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> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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> Accessibility Consultant,
> Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
> Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
> 412-787-8567,
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> http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
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