Screen Reader User Survey by WebAIM

[Justin]

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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