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Re: Screen reader speed in demo

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From: Darryl Drozdik
Date: Aug 18, 2022 9:27AM

When I was looking at “demos” on Youtube it would have helped to get an idea of how fast a power user might use the screen reader. Like, quickly blow through some tasks just to give UX'ers like me an idea of what we're dealing with. Then slow it down so we can comprehend the reads, pauses, keystrokes, etc. I'd be interested in watching the demonstration if you happen to record it!

Regards,
Darryl

> On Aug 6, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Barry via WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi all
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> When demonstrating the use of a screen reader to developers and designers,
> is it better to reflect real world where the user may have the rate set to
> high-speed, which has great impact but can be uninteligable to non-screen
> reader users, or to have the rate set to a normal speaking rate that they
> can understand? A compromise might be to demonstrate a power-user speed,
> then to slow it down to an intelligable speed.
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> Thanks in anticipation.
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> Cheers
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> Barry
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> A11y tip: To Make Your tabular HTML Emails More Accessible for screen
> readers, use the ARIA presentation role.
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