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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

In my  experience, and talking online contacts here as I've never traveled farther south than Guadamala, nor 
been west of Ontario in Ca., Linux is not 
markedly more popular  in developing countries, at least amoung blind users than in the U.S., and where it 
would gai would be in apple market share, not 
taking away from windows. PPL mostly buy beg, borrow, or steal pirated windows and pirated jaws. 
Chromvox is used on four platforms, and with chromebooks having at least the market share of linux, (not 
talking servers of course, and not including 
chromeOS as Linux although of course it is), I would disagree that it's likely that more people use Orca than 
cromevo. 
I use cromevox on my Linux boxes as no  GUI browser besides chrome/chromevox give me access to any content 
that firefox does not. All the other GUI 
alternatives either work less well in general than firefox, and by a good bit across the board, or at best do 
not work on some sites that firefox does 
work on while not working anywhere that firefox does not. This may not be true on every possible webpage, but 
I've stopped testing any GUI LInux 
browsers until I hear of something interesting. Last one I tried was midori.
    

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     B.H.
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  _mallory wrote:
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:09:57AM +0200

> 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
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