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Re: Now that IBM will no longer be supporting HPR

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Nov 13, 2006 8:30AM

I don't know how wise it is for designers and developers, who are not
normally screen reader users,
to do their own testing with demo versions. I would suggest that a
better approach for testing it to use real
users of the assistive technology (AT), in order to get a clear picture
of the accessibility and usability of what
you are testing. I would argue that it can be counterproductive to
develop a site and test it yourself when you are
not familiar with the AT that you are testing with. I would hazard a
guess that many users who are on this list
who are testing with demo versions of JAWS are spending most of their
time getting to grips with using the screen reader,
rather than testing how well their site performs.

I realise this post may annoy some people, but its better to track down
some users of AT who are totally familiar with
their devices and then let them test the site.

That way the results will not be skewed.

My two cents

Josh

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