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A screen reader is a piece of software that allows people who are blind or have significant vision loss to use a computer.

A screen reader is a piece of software which is called assistive techology. This software allows people who are blind or have a vision impairment to interpret what is currently on the screen via speech output or a Refreshable Braille Display.

Since the web is such a big part of people's lives, they think a screen reader enables a person to access the web. In fact this is incorrect, a screen reader enables a person to access all parts of the computer, granted that the programs they are attempting to use are accessible.

Popular Screen Readers

  • JAWS (Job Access With Speech) - Windows-based
  • Window-Eyes - Windows-based
  • VoiceOver - Apple
  • NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) - Windows-based
  • System Access or System Access To Go

Others

  • ChromeVox - ChromeVox is a screen reader for Chrome OS/browser. Because ChromeVox is built by Google, it's optimized for the web.
  • ZoomText - This is a screen-magnifier program with speech-output capabilities. It is used primarily with people with vision loss, not total blindness.
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Using multiple, named section landmarks within main - beneficial or superfluous?

As a non-screenreader user, I feel like adding named sections to a page would increase ease-of-navigation as would bolster any existing heading structures. Landmarks can be quickly cycled through via keyboard by screenreader shortcuts e.g. 'd' in…
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How To Disable Google Sheets Cells Coordinates Reading with ChromeVox Screen Reader feature?

I'm wondering if there's a known way to disable the reading of Google Sheets' Cells Coordinates with ChromeVox Screen reader accessibility Extension? Currently the reader reads the cells content but also utters each cell's coordinates at the end of…
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Accessibility and Links - Screen reader reads each line of link text as a separate link

I have sent the site i'm working on to someone who checks whether its accessable or not, and the test came back with a reject regarding some links in the site. There are 7 links, each of them in their own hoverable box, and in each box there is…
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Why screen readers navigate radio / checkbox buttons by directly selecting them?

I'm trying to be WCAG friendly and have created a group of radio buttons, which, when they receive on-change, trigger action. But when I tried to navigate it by shift+arrow, I discovered that it doesn't just focus them, but right away checks them…
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How to enable Screenreader "Browse Mode" in a custom Application?

Screen readers like NVDA implement two modes of operation: Browse Mode and Focus Mode. Browse Mode is for reading a website/document/application. The screen reader will read all visible contents. To interact with the website/document/application,…
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How to make HTML table/grid accessible with controls outside the table

I am challenged to make an HTML table/grid accessible, which offers the user the possibility to select a row and perform an action on the selected row. The following link gives an example, on how everything shall look like (without…
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Do screen readers read HTML Spans normally?

i made a login form that has a div with a span in the middle to separate a login with social networks or email and password, like this:
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Screen Reader stops at every paragraph/header

I’m extremely new to coding (as in- learning it on the job). I’m creating an HTML document to be read by a screen reader. I’m currently using NVDA to test-read but do not know what the client will be using. My code is all HTML, no CSS, with basic…
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script mouse screen events

I state that I have no programming knowledge and I am not a technician. Is there any software that allows me to click on a monitor event in a specific area? Should I automate the click to a position when there is a change in color or lines in one…
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Screen Reading wordpress plugin

Currently working on a wheelchair transit website using WordPress. they want to incorporate a read website button in the nav. Does anyone know a plugin or a way to have this button read the entire site when it is clicked.
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Animated anchors do not work in Lynx

I have several anchors on my one-page-design-site. Those who are animated by JavaScript do not work in screen-reader lynx. Clicking one of these links always target the first anchor on this page. As Javascript does not influence (normally) a…
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Label html string being read by screen reader

I've got some dynamically generated html building a drop down menu using the Dojo library. I need to make my code Accessibility compliant and right now the screenreader looks at the menu item and reads it as plain html: menu.addChild(new MenuItem({ …
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Should I repeat label text in for="...." and id=".."?

Is there any cons of 2nd method? Why http://www.webstandards.org/ decided to use 2nd method Is first method better than first for screen reader users? First Second
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Display websites like a screen reader perceives it?

I stumbled over the (discontinued?) chrome extensions Chrome Shades, which displays a website the way a screen reader perceives it: Images are replaced with their alt texts Contents are displayed/hidden according to CSS (display:none and…
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