WebAIM Desktop screen reader survey: usage from 2009 to 2015
This chart presents the percentage of users who reported using each of several screen readers in the five WebAIM surveys taken every 18 months to 2 years from January 2009 to July 2015. The results show that among the people who answered the survey, JAWS usage was about 75% in the first survey and declined to around 40% by the last, Window-eyes started about 25% and trended down to half of that, until the final survey when it rose to 30%, NVDA and Voiceover climbed from a bit over 5% to 40% and 30% respectively, ZoomText began at zero and floated around 5% until the last survey where it rose to around a quarter, System Access to Go flourished in the third and fourth at around a quarter then dropped to 7% in the last one, ChromeVox went from zero to hovering around a few percent, and "Other" screen readers began at zero but ranged between five and ten percent subsequently.
The chart is presented as a multiple-line graph with marker points on each line at each of the surveys.
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Percentage usage
Time
January 2009
December 2010
May 2012
January 2014
July 2015
Jaws
NVDA
VoiceOver
Window-Eyes
ZoomText
System Access To Go
ChromeVox
Other
Desktop screen readers from 2009 to 2015
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JAWS
NVDA
VoiceOver
Window-Eyes
ZoomText
System Access To Go
ChromeVox
Other