I would love any links to articles/archived polemic/research studies/the appropriate list... If anybody here has actual experience of a screen reader, I would be overjoyed to hear from them.
Joe Clark or James Edwards aka Brothercake are practicing screen reader testing with various some-technology-enabled sites to test AT behaviour.[1][2] (Plus there's one more on this from Bruce Lawson.[3])
If you're looking for a dedicated forum, you could try AccessifyForum.com [4] ...
BTW I use VoiceOver on MacOS X pretty often. The same goes for inverted color scheme or zoomed screen - my eyes simply hurt after a whole day stuck to a display...
The issue I see nowadays is where the assistive technology doesn't quite catch up with the recent best-practice (sorry to lean it all towards JS/DOM...). One thing is having an accessible content, however I really believe the AT should be built in the system in such way that it could really handle all the information a sighted user could get, and process it for the screen reader. Derek, I'm talking about non-linear DOM changes or generally event announcement. I think we quite agreed on that with Tomas Caspers and Brothercake.
BTW a half year ago I commented on this topic under Garrett's article[5], and maybe made the same mistake of mentioning turning JS off as Derek did some time ago if I'm not mistaken.
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