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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/NCI) [E]
Date: Feb 10, 2022 12:11PM

Couldn't agree more - not to dismiss one group in favor of another. There is a paradigm that if websites are made compatible with ScreenReaders then they're compatible with and accessible to speech recognition software, used by persons with dexterity impairments. It's a false paradigm and one that clearly fails in reality. To this day, I'm finding websites and applications that may or allegedly work with ScreenReaders that are NOT accessible to speech input or speech recognition software (such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking).

ScreenReader users may be more vocal or organized but that may or may not mean that the numbers of ScreenReader users versus speech input users are greater one way or the other.

No one individual or group should take precedence or priority over another.

Gary