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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Apr 21, 2020 7:44AM

As others have said, WCAG and other standards are designed to be technology agnostic. They are functional requirements -- you should be able to do X and Y no matter what assistive technology you are using.

Developers, and others want concrete definitions, you work with this screen reader version, and this browser, and you are done.

Unfortunately the world isn't that simple. In the end you just have to code to the standards and try and stay out of the rabbit hole of screen reader and version, browser and version, OS and version, etc.

Dave



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Hi All,
Is there any official statement or document which states that you should support maximum or the least one screen reader?
I went through the W3 articles, however could not find any such artefact validating the matter.

While it is wise to cover as much screen reader support as possible, even if you support one, you would not attract any litigation.

Can anyone help me in finding any evidence for the above statement?


*Kalpeshkumar Jain*