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Re: Zoon Text and Dragon Natural

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From: glen walker
Date: Sep 3, 2018 9:59AM

Given the time and budget, it's always great to test with other assistive
technology (AT) such as speech recognition and magnification software. You
could include refreshable braille devices too but would need some expertise
on that. All of these other ATs can find problems that screen readers
might not catch.

With speech recognition, if you have elements with an aria-label or
aria-labelledby that don't match the visual presentation, then you can
sometimes get into a situation where the Dragon user can't say "click
element-name" because the element name that's displayed visually doesn't
match the accessible name (aria-label). You can kind of check for this
with screen readers by displaying the dialog that shows all the links or
all the buttons (Ins+F7), which will show the accessible name, and compare
that to visually what's on the screen. If they don't match (or have
sufficient words in common), then a Dragon user might have trouble.

With magnification software, you can sometimes catch focus issues.
ZoomText should follow the focus so that when the focus is moved to another
element, if that element is out of view of ZoomText, it should scroll the
element into view. If the page is only scrolling to an element and not
putting the focus on the element, the element might not appear in view for
ZoomText. To test this without ZoomText, if you have a focus indicator and
any action you perform on the page that causes the focus to move shows a
visual focus indicator on the resulting element, then ZoomText should be ok.

With braille devices, we often catch the wrong character being used for
special symbols, such as the degree symbol.

Glen