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From: glen walker
Date: Dec 9, 2020 3:01PM

Perhaps too broad of a question and probably depends on the technology, but
we installed a desktop app on both the PC and the Mac and NVDA, JAWS, and
VoiceOver could not be used with the app. You couldn't navigate to any
elements with VO (ctrl+opt+shift+downarrow didn't do anything) and when
tabbing on the PC, the screen reader was silent. Even Microsoft's
Accessibility Insights couldn't find any elements in the app. Kind of hard
to test when nothing registers with assistive technology.