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From: Steve Green
Date: Jul 23, 2018 1:20PM

I don't have any insight into that - there are a few companies like Paciello who have people in both countries, and they may have a view on this.

In the UK the government funds an Access To Work programme that pays for equipment, software and training to help people with disabilities get into work. They typically pay for market-leading products like JAWS, ZoomText and Kurzweil, but training is often limited to a day or less in my experience. I don't know if that is the norm in the UK or how it compares with the US.

We have a huge number of disability support groups in the UK, some local and some national. However, I don't know how much training they provide. I am consistently shocked that even the most proficient participants we work with don't know how to use their assistive technologies effectively.

For instance, not one screen reader user has used JAWS' table navigation commands in 14 years of testing. Just last week one said "I wish there was a way to navigate up and down these columns", and that's not the first time. It's the same with ZoomText and Dragon users. Where we can, we recommend our clients implement accommodations to assist people like this, but sometimes there's nothing you can do.

Steve