Hi Justin--
That would indeed be great info to have. My guess is that they are
usually pretty basic and involve verbosity levels (speed, amount of
information spoken) rather than customized short-cut keys. But I don't
have any hard data on that.
It may be that Freedom Scientific has some info about that or the NFB or
ACB.
Mike
Justin wrote:
Hi Mike,
Thanks for sending this out.
I was interested in your second point below and checked out the site,
but didn't really find much more information there. Would you happen
to know what some of the common customizations are? Or where I might
be able to find information on that?
Thanks
Justin
On 2-Feb-09, at 10:40 AM, Michael S Elledge wrote:
Hi Everyone--
WebAIM has done a survey among 1100 screen reader users:
http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/
I'd love to dig into the data some more, but a couple of points are
worth noting:
1. Expertise varies a great deal (17% expert, 41% advanced, 32%
intermediate, 9% beginner). Expertise (no surprise) influences the
difficulty of using certain formats.
2. Over two-thirds (69%) of screen reader users have customized their
settings a lot or somewhat.
3. IE is still used the most by blind persons, but Firefox has a
healthy share (about a third).
4. Headings are the most frequently used assistive method to navigate
(76% whenever available or often)
5. Search is used somewhat less often (51% whenever available or often)
6. Skip links and accesskeys are used much less frequently (38%
whenever available or often--another 28% use them sometimes).
7. Screen reader users were much more interested in having
descriptions for images that enhanced the mood of a web page than
evaluators (71% vs. 35%).
8. Flash was considered very or somewhat difficult to use (71%),
Acrobat/PDF was less difficult (48%), Frames were much less so (27%
very or somewhat difficult).
9. Most users couldn't answer whether 2.0 or DHTML applications were
difficult (54%), of the others 28% thought they were accessible, 18%
didn't.
Mike
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