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Re: screen reader versions for testing

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From: Mallory
Date: Nov 2, 2016 3:13PM

One thing to be aware of for the future is, even JAWS might not be able
to
do some of this later on. I know both JAWS and NVDA do some sniffing
around of the DOM and heuristics to make guesses of things, but for
example this isn't allowed any more on Edge (for security reasons
they've said) and I would expect most of the other browser vendors
to do the same, for the same reasons. I'm not sure what SRs and other
AT will do about that, since the reason they do it is poor authoring.

_mallory

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016, at 03:45 AM, Beranek, Nicholas wrote:
> We test primarily with the latest versions of NVDA and Firefox. We've
> found that JAWS will compensate for bad coding practices (e.g. A missing
> programmatic label but adjacent text was present) and there were
> possibilities that it missed certain issues. If there is ever any
> question about the results from NVDA; then we'll try another browser. If
> it persists, we try another screen reader such as JAWS. Sometimes, we'll
> find that it's simply a user agent issue and we'll do our best to file a
> bug.