At 01:54 PM 7/5/2006, John W. Baxter wrote:

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Does the industry (I almost wrote "do we") know how big a problem this is in practice? That is, what fraction of users of screen readers and other assistive stuff routinely run with JavaScript active?

Since the assertion here is "screenreaders have trouble with JavaScript" I would expect most screenreader users to have JavaScript turned off.

--John

At 01:54 PM 7/5/2006, David Andrews wrote:

That assertion is not true, to my knowledge -- and I am a screen reader user. Because it does work with a lot of things, and does offer improved functionality, it is rare to turn Javascript off.

David Andrews

On one of the SXSW 2006 Interactive Panels [1], "Making Web 2.0 Accessible", Javascript and accessibility guru, Derek Featherstone, mentioned that screenreaders running with JavaScript enabled is in fact the norm. Shawn Henry also mention the importance of testing with users.

Laura

SXSW 2006 Podcasts: [1] http://2006.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/

Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/