Screen Reader User Survey by WebAIM

[Michael S Elledge]

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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