[thelist] User-Agent for Aural Readers

[Jeff Howden]

Sam,

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> From: Sam Carter
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> Do Aural Readers (like JAWS) leave a specific User-Agent
> string?
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It depends, in large part, on whether or not the screen reader is itself a
browser or if it's an application whose purpose is solely to read the text
in the active window.

JAWS, being the latter, does not leave a user-agent string.  However,
pwWebspeak leaves a user-agent string of "pwWebSpeak 3.0 Non-Visual Browser
(32 bit; EN)", but SimplyWeb 2000 says "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)", the same browser string that my copy of
IE6 leaves.  So, I'd say you can't rely on the user-agent string to identify
aural browsers.

Jeff

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