Re: [orca-list] Important: Web accessibility survey for screen reader users

[_mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:17:52AM -0500, Alex Midence wrote:
> I wanted to pass this link along to you guys so the Orca community is more represented in these things so, 
> I’m terribly sorry about the cross posting.  This is a survey conducted by Webaim to find out how 
> accessible screen reader users think the internet is.  What bugs me is that they mention nearly all screen 
> readers except for Orca.  Last time I mentioned it to them, they said it was because they didn’t think 
> anyone used it much so, they didn’t include it.  Chromevox was there though which I would argue has fewer 
> users than Orca does. 

> http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/

Jared even made a snarky comment about Orca users:
https://twitter.com/jared_w_smith/status/618529195761668096

It would be nice to know if Orca is more heavily represented in
countries like India and Brazil, because I'm pretty sure the
WebAIM surveys are very Western-biased, where having a Windows
machine is often an automatic default.

_mallory