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by matsemann 1995 days ago
My biggest problem when using a screenreader for testing, is that my usage isn't the same as a blind person would use it. I mostly press "next sentence" or tab and am really slow. My testing is also biased by the fact that I know how it looks (what is on each page, which part I'm trying to reach).

When I visited a blind person to test for us at a previous workplace, I was astonished about what we found. It was very different from our own attempts. His voice-speed and navigation was so fast that the parts we felt were sluggish just took him a second to navigate through. He had other issues, however.