JAWS

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with JAWS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Screen readers feel infuriating with a steep learning curve for the commenter2023-10-09
Screen readers feel confusing; unclear how to navigate a simple site like Hacker News2023-03-03
Screen reader parses PDF text out of order and misreads some fonts2023-01-18
Screen reader is a pile of hacks, not well integrated, making accessibility work hard2021-05-07
Screen reader accessibility is treated as low priority, so tabbing and form navigation go untested2019-01-06
Screen reader inconsistently handles ARIA attributes and page loads, making accessibility testing unreliable2018-04-06
Hello world example creates an alarming number of resources in the AWS account2015-10-15
Screen reader software is daunting to learn and frustratingly difficult to use2011-03-05
Screen reader is powerful but daunting to learn, with a steep learning curve2011-03-04