Demographics

Disability Reported Do you use a screen reader due to a disability? Response # of Respondents % of Respondents Yes 1107 91% No 111 9%

Screen Reader Proficiency Please rate your screen reader proficiency Response # of Respondents % of Respondents Advanced 644 52.6% Intermediate 504 41.2% Beginner 75 6.1% Those who use screen readers due to a disability report themselves as being much more proficient with screen readers. 3% of those with disabilities considered their proficiency to be "Beginner" compared to 36% of those without disabilities.

Internet Proficiency Please rate your proficiency using the Internet Response # of Respondents % of Respondents Advanced 765 62.5% Intermediate 437 35.7% Beginner 22 1.7% 61% of those who use screen readers due to a disability reported "Advanced" Internet proficiency compared to 86% of those without disabilities.

Primary Screen Reader Which of the following is your primary desktop/laptop screen reader? Screen Reader # of Respondents % of Respondents JAWS 727 59.2% Window-Eyes 138 11.2% VoiceOver 120 9.8% NVDA 105 8.6% System Access or System Access To Go 58 4.7% ZoomText 40 3.3% Other 40 3.3% Most notable is a significant decline in primary usage of JAWS - down to 59.2% from 66.4% as reported in October 2009. All other screen readers saw an increase in usage, with NVDA gaining the greatest ground with a nearly 300% increase in usage in 14 months. There was no marked difference in primary screen reader use between respondents with and without disabilities; however, those without disabilities were more likely to use NVDA (19.8% of respondents) than those with disabilities (7.6%). Those with a screen reader proficiency of "Beginner" were less likely to use JAWS and Window-Eyes and 3 times more likely to use NVDA than those with "Advanced" screen reader proficiency.

Screen Readers Commonly Used Which of the following desktop/laptop screen readers do you commonly use? (select all that apply) Screen Reader # of Respondents % of Respondents JAWS 866 69.6% Window-Eyes 236 19.0% VoiceOver 251 20.2% NVDA 433 34.8% System Access or System Access To Go 202 16.2% ZoomText 76 6.1% Other 92 7.4% JAWS (75.2% to 69.6%), Window-Eyes (23.5% to 19.0%), and System Access (22.3% to 16.2%) saw decreases in usage since October 2009. VoiceOver (6% in January 2009 to 14.6% in October 2009 to 20.2% in December 2010) and NVDA (8% in January 2009 to 25.6% in October 2009 to 34.8% in December 2010) saw significant increases in usage. The following chart shows changes in screen reader usage over time.

47% of respondents commonly use more than one screen reader, 20% use more than two, and 7% use more than three screen readers.

Browsers When using your primary screen reader, which browser do you use most often? Browser # of Respondents % of Respondents Internet Explorer 8 522 43.1% Firefox 3+ 285 23.5% Internet Explorer 7 151 12.5% Safari 116 9.6% Internet Explorer 6 63 5.2% Internet Explorer 9 54 4.5% Others 20 1.7% Internet Explorer accounts for 65.3% of the browser share among respondents. At the time of publication, this is significantly higher than that of the general population. When compared to the October 2009 survey, Internet Explorer usage dropped from 70.9% whereas Firefox (18.8% to 23.5%) and Safari (8.3% to 9.6%) usage both increased. Those without disabilities were twice as likely as those with disabilities to use Firefox (43.7% compared to 21.8%) and much less likely to use Internet Explorer (47.6% compared to 66.5%).

JavaScript Enabled Respondents with JavaScript enabled JavaScript Enabled % of Respondents Yes 98.4% No 1.6% 10.4% of respondents to the October 2009 survey indicated that they have JavaScript disabled in their web browser. As respondents submitted responses to this survey we detected the presence of JavaScript. We found that very few respondents had it disabled or unavailable in their web browser. Of the 19 respondents with JavaScript disabled, 12 were using Firefox (presumably with the NoScript add-on enabled) and 5 were using Lynx with Linux.