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From: Ajeesh Thomas
Date: Wed, Sep 27 2017 5:48AM
Subject: Screen reader Testing with NVDA /IE
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Hi sir,
Could anyone share your view points - Downside of NVDA screen reader
specifically while working with browsers ?
Why NVDA with IE is not a better combination in Screen Reader Testing?
Kindly share your opinion in this regards.
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From: Graham Armfield
Date: Thu, Sep 28 2017 2:51PM
Subject: Re: Screen reader Testing with NVDA /IE
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My view is that NVDA works best with Firefox rather than IE11. That's not
to say that you can't use NVDA with other browsers, but FF seems to be most
complete an experience.
It is also my view that if you are going to use one screen reader to test
the accessibility of a page then NVDA/FF will give you the most accurate
results. JAWS does have a tendency to 'make allowances' for poor coding
which can skew the results. An example concerns input fields and labels. If
an input field has some adjacent text, JAWS seems to confidently present
this text as a prompt for the field, even though the label is not
explicitly (and therefore programmatically) linked with the input field.
NVDA however will not voice the text as a label unless the 'label' and
input field are linked.
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From: Pratik Patel
Date: Thu, Sep 28 2017 3:04PM
Subject: Re: Screen reader Testing with NVDA /IE
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I generally agree that NVDA and Firefox tend to be most compatible. IE and
NVDA work well together. But, keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't updated IE
11 for quite some time. NVDA's Edge and Chrome support are coming along
quite nicely as well.
Regards,
Pratik
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:52 PM Graham Armfield <
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> My view is that NVDA works best with Firefox rather than IE11. That's not
> to say that you can't use NVDA with other browsers, but FF seems to be most
> complete an experience.
>
> It is also my view that if you are going to use one screen reader to test
> the accessibility of a page then NVDA/FF will give you the most accurate
> results. JAWS does have a tendency to 'make allowances' for poor coding
> which can skew the results. An example concerns input fields and labels. If
> an input field has some adjacent text, JAWS seems to confidently present
> this text as a prompt for the field, even though the label is not
> explicitly (and therefore programmatically) linked with the input field.
> NVDA however will not voice the text as a label unless the 'label' and
> input field are linked.
>
> Regards
> Graham Armfield
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