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From: Isaac, Joel P
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2016 7:47AM
Subject: Mouse tracking and screen readers
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Hi all,

I've been noticing many screen readers including NVDA and VoiceOver include mouse tracking. If you're unfamiliar, this feature allows for text below the pointer to be read by the screen reader.

Have any of you included screen reader with mouse tracking as part of your a11y testing?

Thanks,
== Joel Isaac

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From: _mallory
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2016 9:41AM
Subject: Re: Mouse tracking and screen readers
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 01:47:30PM +0000, Isaac, Joel P via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been noticing many screen readers including NVDA and VoiceOver include mouse tracking. If you're unfamiliar, this feature allows for text below the pointer to be read by the screen reader.
>
> Have any of you included screen reader with mouse tracking as part of your a11y testing?

I've done it recently with some SVG testing I was doing, since I
already had to check multiple ways of getting to the SVG or
asking for images on the page.

For general testing, I instead do this with ZoomText and then not
with NVDA etc.

_mallory