[Irl-dean] Irish Times artical on Accessibility

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Tim,
> I believe that the vast majority of  visually impaired people use the same
> browsers as sighted people, but they use screen readers and/or magnification
> software to interact with these browsers.

They do, AFAIK.

> I did write to the author pointing out this fact, but got no response.

I also wrote to him. I was glad to see the article but I mailed him to 
mention that he incorrectly called JAWS a browser. It's an 
understandable misnomer as it depends on how you look at this term. On 
one level a screen reader is partly a navigation application that could, 
from a purely semantic perspective, be called a browser in that it 
allows a user to browse an OS or interact with a web user agent. So it 
can be seen to facilitate this /browsing/ function for the user. 
However, in the context of the article and I guess computer science in 
general, the term browser usually refers to a specific user agent like 
Firefox, or IE and so on.

So to call JAWS a browser is an inaccurate description (that I have come 
across before).

A good article none the less.

Cheers

Josh

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