- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:41:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Cc: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Most _blind_ people. It is apparently becoming more common (this is, in my not entirely representative experience) for people with dyslexia to use screen readers. For these people it is not at all irrelevant. There is also a trade-off to be made beteween functionality of the software (advanced screen readers with Internet explorer certainly provide the most features) and stability, since advanced screen readers are very complex programs which mean even the relatively stable Windows XP can be expected to crash several times a day. One way to reduce the impact of this is to live with less powerful tools, gaining in stability. Neither of these are, at the time of writing, the majority experience of screen reader users. I just wanted to be sure that the working group doesn't fall into the trap of designing for one aprt of the user community because they forget that there are others out there. cheers Chaals On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Joe Clark wrote: > >> One point of clarification: if you have to use a screen reader and you >> use Windows, then you pretty much have to use Internet Explorer. > >I know. And most people using screen readers have so little usable vision >that making fonts bigger is irrelevant. > >-- > > Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org > Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ > <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/> > Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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