Re:Non-GUI UI (Score 1)

You've hit the nail right on the head. Why translate exactly what's on the screen to audio and force the user to interpret "audible visuals?" Why does the user who just wants to send email have to deal with the fact that some new window popped up over the email message and stole the keyboard focus? Or that the text in the email is partially off the edge of the screen and the screen reader refuses to read it? (No joke, JAWS operates at that level.)

I'm looking at an alternative approach to screen reading in my CS dissertation, one that boils apps down to the tasks users can complete in them and a system the generates conversational audio dialogs instead of audible GUIs.