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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Apr 17, 2017 1:36PM

well said Tim. this speaks to the criticleness of using reel people in
your testing. and yes i often speak words the way a screen reader does it
took one of my coworkers 8 months to ask me what i was saying when i kept
saying seo not S E O smile. actually i did not even know what seo
meant the first time i herd it so it was always seo for me even though i
new it was S E O
lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Tim Harshbarger <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Here is something to keep in mind for anyone who tests with a screen
> reader...
>
> For those of us who depend on screen readers and use them all the time, we
> tend to become use to how the screen reader reads text. As long as you use
> common formats for text information, we should be able to pick up that
> information--even if the way the screen reader speaks it sounds unusual.
>
> In fact, sometimes if you listen very carefully to a screen reader user
> talking, you can catch that we will pronounce words the same as our screen
> readers do--and we are not even aware of it.
>
> However, it might also be worthwhile to test the time element to see if it
> influences how a screen reader reads time information. While using a common
> time format for the text works--there is nothing wrong with using another
> method if it produces a better user experience.
>