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Are you confusing screen readers with voice control software? Screen readers are most often used by people with vision impairments; with desktop operating systems, they use a keyboard not just for typing in form fields but to navigate and control all the websites and software on their device instead of a mouse or other device that operates a cursor.

Voice control software is used most often by people with limited use of their hands, verbal commands replace keyboard and cursor control inputs.

> Standard browser controls are all 100% accessible by default.

Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. For instance, `select` elements and their options don't reflow in most browsers. It is true that the native elements are much more accessible than most alternatives developers create.



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