Re:HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
by runarberg on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:31PM
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As a linux user I do most of my assistive technology testing with Orcas. Do you have any insight into that? Do many assistive technology users use Orcas? Is Orcas behavior significantly different from the more popular once?
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Re:HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
by extra88 on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:52PM
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In the last WebAIM Screen Reader survey [0], if anyone answered they primarily use Orca, they got lumped into "Other"; out of over 1,000 respondents, 7 primarily use Chromevox so the Orca number must be lower than that. If some use Orca sometimes, they must have been less than 1% of the respondents and got lumped into Other for that question as well.
That doesn't mean that Orca doesn't do a good job or that it works very differently than other screen readers. The A11ySupport site [1] does have some data on Orca's support for specific code. For instance, it fully supports the aria-expanded attribute but has no support for description list elements.
If you have an iOS or Android device, using their built-in screen readers might be more instructive.
[0] https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/ [1] https://a11ysupport.io/
Re:HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
by eyelidlessness on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:42PM
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No, I wish I had insight here but I don't. I'm sorry I can't be any more help.