[Athen] Screen reader usage at your university

[PATRICK BURKE]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 1:40 PM glen walker <glen.walker at gmail.com> wrote:


> Note that there are several screen reader sections in that survey.  The

> percentages you listed are from the "Primary Screen Reader" section,

> https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/#primary.  The section

> just after it, "Screen Readers Commonly Used",

> https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/#used, has different

> percentages and I'm not clear on the distinction between the two questions.

>

> Sometimes people will have multiple screen readers installed on the same

computer (or use different computers with different software, eg., home vs.
work). So we may prefer one screen reader overall, but use several during
the course of a day or week. The second question is, I think, trying to get
at that second level of info. The idea also goes back to the times (just a
few years ago) where a particular screen reader-browser combination
provided better accessibility. Or a screen reader might have been optimized
to work with PDFs, MS Office environments, etc. So the "Commonly Used"
question was more relevant than it may be these days.

Patrick
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