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Re: Is VoiceOver more similar to NVDA or JAWS with respect to the accessibility tree?

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From: Murphy, Sean
Date: Jun 3, 2020 3:51PM

Steve,

What tools are you referring to in the below statement?

"By all means use a screen reader to help find bugs, but as with all tools you need to be aware that it will lie to you, so you need to protect yourself against that. As we find better testing tools and techniques (mostly single purpose tools) I find I hardly use a screen reader at all during a WCAG audit. The bugs and heuristics have caused me to lose confidence in anything they tell me - they are probably the most inaccurate tool in our toolbox."

From your testing, has the heuristic improved over time or do you still feel is the same state? I noticed you isolated Jaws, does this also occur in other screen readers?


Sean
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