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Implies Windows but without information about why Windows was chosen. Sometimes people have to use whatever computer is available. So I take the question more
by natch 3y ago
Implies Windows but without information about why Windows was chosen. Sometimes people have to use whatever computer is available.
So I take the question more as: given whatever computer platform you are stuck on, what screen reader do you prefer?
Feel free to share the poll though, maybe it will clarify.
- zdragnar 3y agoN=1, but the only blind engineer I've worked with preferred Windows, I think for JAWS. The company was a little behind the curve on hardware, but was fairly progressive in a lot of ways, and made accommodations without question, so I know he could have gotten a Mac if he'd wanted one. He even gave a demo to the team at one point of what it was like to navigate editors, screens and browsers as a blind person, starting with the screen reader at a normal speed and ramping it up to what he was accustomed to. I'm a little sad I didn't get to work with him directly outside of a single time he helped me test some custom UI elements, so I don't know much more about his take on voiceover versus jaws, but this was also over a decade ago. I'm sure things have changed more than a little since then.