Such as? JAWS (which has something like 50% market share) has a high level of JavaScript support and I believe that the other professional screen readers (WindowEyes and HAL/SuperNova) also do. Free and cheap screen readers generally don't have JavaScript support.
In our experience screen reader users do not turn off JavaScript. In fact they tend to use pretty much all software as it comes out of the box without any customisation. The one exception is Windows itself, where it is beneficial to enable Classic mode and make a few other adjustments, especially in Vista. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Snodgrass Sent: 04 February 2008 03:06 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation Mostly empirical evidence, though I've read it in many reliable sources. Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Christian Snodgrass wrote: >> (Most screen readers don't have Javascript enabled, so this is a >> valid method). > > Just wondering if this is based on stats or empirical evidence? > > P -- Christian Snodgrass Azure Ronin Web Design http://www.arwebdesign.net/ <http://www.arwebdesign.net> Phone: 859.816.7955 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
