I dunno, really. I am fortunate enough to have access to three commercial screen readers for Windows (Window-Eyes, Supernova and JAWS) as well as to NVDA and of course VoiceOver on the Mac, the latter of which just happens to be my primary combination. I’m still not convinced that’s enough. Certainly there does exist the potential for the Mac to have a third-party screen reader that sucks less than VoiceOver, and Windows accessibility is just fundamentally broken anyway by birth, but if Microsoft ever pulls its finger out—who knows, we may yet reconcile the need for working accessibility out of the box with a choice of multiple platforms, but I do worry that the commitment to (at least OS X’s) VoiceOver has not been as good as it could or should be, and if we _want_ to have just one choice of screen reader for every platform then we had better be ready to accept nothing less than perfect. It would be a great disappointment to find that platforms with excellent out-of-box accessibility were hamstrung merely by internalised development processes and NIH politics, yet that seems to be the one true way with OS X and iOS, and also recently ChromeOS and Windows as well. I consider Windows to be the more accessible platform at the moment, merely on the basis of application choices, but I use OS X because I prefer the model and quality of the accessibility that it provides. This may change if Microsoft does a half-decent job with Narrator in Win10, or alternatively that my discontent with OS X in general and perhaps VO in particular simply drive me back to Windows for the better of the mediocrities. MS are strongly hinting that they do not intend to replace AT, so this seems very likely.
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