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Re: Examples of assistive technology companies documenting the features of web technology they support?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jul 16, 2017 6:19PM

Freedom Scientific created a document about Jaws support for ARIA some
years ago, but I doubt it has been updated.
Powermapper
https://www.powermapper.com/tests/

has a large selection of assistive technology compatibility for web
markup (I haven't used it extensively, I admit .. because I just do my
own testing, but I think it is pretty solid and definitely worth a
close look).



On 7/15/17, Mark Weiler < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> The notion of accessibility supported  in WCAG depends on the ability of
> assistive technologies to use a feature of a web content technology.
> (According to the W3C:  "To qualify as an accessibility-supported use of a
> Web content technology... The way that the Web content technology is used
> must be supported by users' assistive technology (AT).")
> So, if I understand this correctly, using an element of HTML5, for example,
> to implement a WCAG Success Criteria is valid only if a user's assistive
> technology can support that particular HTML5 element.
> If that's the case, have assisitive technology companies published any
> documents that list the features of web technologies their ATs can support?
>
> > > > >


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