- From: Ben Mason <siberianluck@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
>On 6/2/07 6:32 PM, "Schalk Neethling" <schalk@alliedbridge.com> wrote: > Please see below a note from a screen reader user: > > "Hi,I just wonder what they would want to do with this information.Web > site design should not be screen-reader specific at all.It is unlikely > that one would get any reliable figures, but the two most popular screen > readers in use today is JAWS and Window-Eyes. All screen-readers use the > same mechanisms to grab and present the information. What is important > is not which screen-reader is used, but rather whether the > browser/browser-plug-in that has to be used to access a web site, > provides the relevant information to the accessibility layers in the > operating systems. Other general issues are mostly covered in the > accessibility guidelines, e.g. not to use images to convey text. As far > as which versions of the screen-Readers are used, at any one time, I > would say the last 3 or 4 versions of the screen-readers are in general > use. These things are expensive and so are their upgrades. People cannot > always use the latest versions. HTH, Willem" >Are there any open source screen readers? Yes, wikipedia has a good list of screen readers - some of which are open source. For windows the main candidate seems to be NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers
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