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Re: Figures and Captions and Alt-text oh my...

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: May 8, 2018 5:54AM

This is what makes NvDA a great screen reader to test with, it does
much less guess work than, say, Jaws.



On 5/7/18, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
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