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From: Steve Green
Date: May 7, 2018 2:38PM

I recently saw a statement that there are about 1.3 billion websites. I doubt if even 1% of those have been designed and tested to achieve a good level of accessibility. Screen readers therefore have to do the best they can with the other 99%. If some developers are relying on a screen reader to do a quick test, that doesn't seem a good enough reason to impair the user experience on the 99% of website where the developers didn't even test at all.

Testing with assistive technologies is important, but developers should not be using screen readers to assess the level of standards compliance of their code - there are much more appropriate tools and techniques for that.

Steve