Re: WebAim Screen Reader User Survey #7: Getting The Word Out About NVDA
Gene New Zealand <hurrikennyandopo@...>
hi Bhavya
I have been following the surveys after they survey has finished.
I have also been noticing that the number of jaws users have been dropping along with a few of the commercial screen users and magnifiers etc.
Also the use of mobile units starting to rise as in the use of android and apple devices that can go portable.
For me mostly home use is nvda 100 percent of the time and if mobile a android device.
Gene nz
On 10/1/2017 2:20 AM, Bhavya shah wrote:
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. --
Check out my website for NVDA tutorials and other blindness related material at
http://www.accessibilitycentral.net Regardless of where you are in New Zealand if you are near one of the APNK sites you can use a copy of the NVDA screen reader on one of their computers.
To find out which locations (or location) is near to you please visit
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/content/partner-libraries (Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa). To find an NVDA certified expert near you, please visit the following link
https://certification.nvaccess.org/. The certification page contains the official list of NVDA certified individuals from around the world, who have sat and successfully passed the NVDA
expert exam.
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