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

The survey is out of a university, not part of a larger gov plot....grin.
Do not forget the populasrity of chromebooks over the last year or almost 2 now I guess it is. While you can 
argue a bit about whether chromeOS is a 
niche opperating system perhaps, (I could not argue one way or another having no eperience), ichromevox is 
the screenreader for more than chrome as we 
know it on Linux or that Microsoft OS. 
The survey is more about web accessibility if I remember correctly than general purpose computer 
accessibility, so talking a browser specific 
screenreader does make sense in that context. 
Lots of the younger blind people coming up are dumbed down in to us9ing web apps when they are not necesary 
for school or work. Not knocking the current 
batch of kids, each generation has its own "blind spots" if you will pardon the poor pun.


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  kendell clark wrote:
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 07:18:18AM -0500


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hi
This is definitely possible. I was talking with some people on the
talking arch channel and we were all wondering why orca didn't get a
mention. After all, chromevox is on the list, and that barely
qualifies as a screen reader. It's more of an application specific
reader, which ... well, whether it counts or not is debatable I guess.
I think it all boils down to the blind government agencies, of which
this web accessibility thing is probably associated with, conveniently
forgetting to give linux any mentions at all. I've noticed this a lot,
but I don't have an answer. My cinical side thinks it's some plot to
make windows and apple invaluable, while the rest of me has no idea.
Thanks
Kendell clark


kk wrote:


Hi all. orca is indeed being used in India extensively, specially
in the south. And I think this is deliberate social engineering by
some exploitative proprietary mafia which wants people to have
another reason not to use a free OS. Given that NVDA gets a mention
at all the places, it being open source, then why not Orca? The
reason is very simple, you still need proprietary OS and other 
proprietary software with NVDA right? But Linux is free as in
freedom and to a great extent as in free of cost. So they want to
defeate the very social purpose. Happy hacking. Krishnakant.


On Monday 27 July 2015 01:03 PM, Trenton Matthews wrote:

hmmm. Fewer usrs? Nah. Small community, definitely.

As for it not being on the survey, (which i think is closed now,)
I wonder the reason why Orca isn't on the list, is because it
doesn't get enough press. Same with Supernova and Cobra on
Windows for that matter...



On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:09 AM, _mallory
<stommepoes stommepoes nl <mailto:stommepoes stommepoes nl>>
wrote:

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.

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