erik burggraaf <erik@...>
The sample size is very small
in these surveys, but they definitely show the paradigm shift and I
won't be surprised at all to see mobile, mac voiceover, and nvda useage up,
and jaws useage down. Window-eyes use should fall right off the
charts since the product is discontinued. This will help slow the
skid of jaws, but I think at least as many window-eyes switchers made it to
NVDA as to jaws, despite the fact that jaws 18 was a free upgrade for Many
window-eyes users.
Since the new paradigm puts the
blind more or less on an equal playing field, and social, legal and
economic trends all support moving in that direction it shouldn't be too
surprising that blind users want it more and more. I have thought for
years that 2021 is about the final stopping point for old paradigm designs,
particularly the personal computer, but I can see a lot of tradition going
by the board by then. This is all good for us, and it's nice to have
something concreet to demonstrate the trend we can all see happening around
us.
Have fun,
Erik
On
October 2, 2017 12:57:37 AM "Sarah k Alawami"
<marrie12@...> wrote:
Wow, interesting. I'm not surprised. I wonder what we'll see this year now
that a lot of us are switching to nvda and or android and or voiceover.
Take care
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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