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Re: Web development; How to identify if a screen reader is in use

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: May 11, 2017 11:17AM

use best pracktuses and do not even think about detecting my screen reader
i don't want you to change your site thinking that is the only way to make
your site useable if that is the only way no one elce likes what your
doing and they might want you to re think the fancy stuff that needs to be
changed for them to

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > Another concern is "numbers." If you take any given segment of the
> disabled population, blind people, deaf people, low vision persons, screen
> reader users, etc., its numbers are going to be relatively low compared to
> the whole.
>
> Dave, I agree. Any numbers have to carefully be considered and message to
> stakeholders. It is however compelling to be able to say x% of your screen
> reader users are using Firefox or x% are using Internet Explorer and x% are
> using Chrome while x% of your zoom users are using Chrome, etc. Knowing
> how many screen reader users are using iOS who visit your site versus
> Android may allow you to focus or not focus on browser specific issues or
> decide how to handle potential touch challenges with certain AT and user
> agent combinations.
>
> Right now the community only has access to the WebAIM screen reader survey
> to get information about these topics. This is an important area where we
> need more data to focus and push back to organizations and say you can't
> just focus on one user agent just because all of your non-AT users are
> using that user agent -- you have to consider user agents used by people
> with assistive technology as well.
>
> Jonathan
>
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