On Sep 30, 2017, at 6:36 AM, Bhavya shah <bhavya.shah125@...> wrote:

Hi Joseph,
While I agree with what you are trying to convey, I do sincerely
believe that NVDA usage shares are sometimes underrepresented due to
limited disemination of this survey within the NVDA community (which
consists of people from Asia, Africa and South America, regions less
active in the context of such surveys). While I acknowledge that my
wording of this mail may have been of a promotional nature, I would
like to reiterate that our core intent in filling surveys like
WebAim's screen reader user survey should be to provide more data
about the AT industry to interested parties so as to make it more
reflective of the actualities. Having said that, I would highly
encourage users of NVDA as well as other Desktop and mobile screen
readers to participate enthusiastically in such surveys on their own
volition.
Thanks.

On 9/30/17, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@...> wrote:

Hi,
I would like to stress that people should show willingness to participate in
this survey. Last time, a screen reader vendor did promote this survey
heavily, which resulted in unintended side effect of skewing the resulting
data, and I do not want to see someone repeating that. Promotion is good,
but I think using this survey as a fuel for promoting NVDA isn't a good
idea; rather, it is better to promote NVDA on a continual basis, not during
big events like this.
Cheers,
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bhavya
shah
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 6:20 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: [nvda] WebAim Screen Reader User Survey #7: Getting The Word Out
About NVDA

Dear all,
Since almost a decade, WebAim, a non-profit web accessibility consultancy
organisation, has been conducting an annual (sometimes
biennial) survey, which, as its name implies, attempts to gather statistics
about the usage share of different screen readers, technology (particularly
Internet) accessibility trends, etc. so as to aid analysts, researchers,
accessibility consultants, sighted developers, and mainstream companies to
get a quantified picture of the state of the AT industry.
While this survey features participation from varied geographies, NVDA’s
user base, at least in my personal view, has always been understated. While
8% respondents of the first December 2008 WebAim survey reported to be NVDA
users, this figure has only increased to 14% of respondents in its 2015
counterpart claiming to use NVDA as their primary screen reader and 41%
using it commonly, a usage share substantially lower than NVDA’s commercial
and more expensive screen reading alternatives.
I think it would be a great way of playing our tiny part in getting the word
out about NVDA’s viability and competency if all NVDA community members,
users, testers and other related parties, particularly from second and third
world developing regions which often remain silent for such surveys but
where free and open source NVDA makes a prominent impact, take this survey
and contribute to letting the world know about the size and standing of the
NVDA user base.
The URL of said survey is https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/
.
It took me about ten minutes to fill this survey and the form was extremely
accessible. Not only from an NVDA angle, but filling such surveys always
brings out useful and reflective data, which, in turn, betters AT as a
whole. Therefore, I urge everyone to take some time out for this survey so
that we can make the data truly reflective of the actualities.
Thanks.
P.S. I am in no way affiliated to WebAim nor is my intention to merely
promote this survey.

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