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Re: Zoon Text and Dragon Natural

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From: Ajay Sharma
Date: Sep 3, 2018 11:52PM

Thanks a lot Glen and Vasu, that was really helpful info.

Best Regards,
Ajay

On 9/3/18, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
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