Screenreader

If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you can become a hero for thousands of people out there by assuring that anything you create for the web can be read properly by a screen reader. This blog post is going to teach you how to access and wield this super power that is built into the OS you use everyday.

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Mit iOS 12.2 hat Apple eine Funktion eingeführt, mit der Webseiten mitgeteilt wird, dass ein Anwender Hilfstechnik, insbesondere den Screenreader VoiceOver eins

A sighted user puts himself in the shoes of a non-sighted user. Chris Ashton experiences first-hand difficulties that visually impaired users face and describes what we can do as web developers to help.

On the eighth day of Xmas, Callum Macrae shows us how to test our websites using a screen reader. Accessibility is an important factor when building any website and while following checklists to en…

How to hide inline SVG used for decorative icons from screen readers.

The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

The title of this post is pretty specific. It relates to the meme on Twitter where users identify a trait or preference that they see as problematic, and identify it as a red flag. The emoji represents the red flag. For example: A stylized red flag Blaming Screen Readers 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩…

User experience designers guide - How to document the screen reader user experience for web content. Using your visual as a starting point, we’ll take you step by step through how to document the screen reader UX introducing concepts along the way.

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.

Sie finden im Folgenden unterschiedliche Informationen, welche Ihnen als blinde Person den Start mit dem freien Screenreader NVDA erleichtern sollen. NVDA-Anlei

To screen readers, a lot of the visual information that is presented on a webpage is lost. Because of this, we need to specifically provide information to them that may be obvious to a person looking at the page. One common way people define information specifically for screen readers is

Instantly test with real screen readers, magnifiers, and more. Make sure your websites and apps are accessible.

How CSS bleeds into content and influences screenreader announcements.

In HTML kannst du mit dem mark-Element – ähnlich einem Textmarker – die Texte zusätzlich, und zwar sowohl visuell als auch semantisch richtig hervorheben.

An approachable guide to doing an accessibility audit using a screen reader

Popularity in browsers Firefox popularity among screen reader users has been consistently increasing for the last few years. In a 2015 WebAIM survey, 34.9% of participants answered “Internet Explorer 10” to a question “When using your primary screen reader, which browser do you use most often?”, whereas 31% answered “Firefox”. However, in a 2017 survey,

Screen readers are an essential part of using the web for people who are vision impaired, illiterate or have a learning disability. Today’s screen readers traverse web pages and applications and read out user interface elements, content and allow users to navigate and interact with the web. There are many screen readers available for different devices and platforms, each with differing levels of…

Recent research shows a continued increase in the use of screen readers on mobile devices. Check out this demo on how to use VoiceOver on an iPhone to shed light on how to implement better accessibility testing on your website.

Test results for assistive technologies including popular screen readers like NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver.

Shows how different WAI-ARIA attributes behave in commonly used screen readers

Part 1 of this series focuses on the way screen readers read (or don't read) punctuation and typographic symbols.