Screen readers survey!
Reposted from the disability LJ community:
webaim is running their second ever Screen Reader Users Survey. The first survey has been invaluable to web developers who want to write to how PWD actually use extensible technology, instead of writing to how standards designers think we use accessible technology. If you use a screen reader, please take the survey!
The survey mentions :
* Hal
* JAWS
* NVDA (free, open source)
* Supernova
* System Access or System Access To Go
* VoiceOver (Free)
* Window Eyes
* ZoomText
And asks for information on any other screen readers not mentioned. They didn’t list Orca which is free, open source, and scriptable.
Meanwhile, Glenda Watson Hyatt from Do It Myself Blog (Hi Glenda!) asks, So, how do we get programmers going on an open source screen reader for Macs? Let her (and us) know if you hear of any open source screen readers for Mac OS, please!
Ha! I see a Dragon NaturallySpeaking error in my text (“extensible” for “accessible”). How apropos.
I have gotten way too lazy about checking those.
Also, I would love to expand on Glenda Watson Hyatt’s question, and add, how do we get decent speech recognition for Macintosh.