Guides and Tutorials

In this section you can find various guides and tutorials to help you out improve the accessibility of your project, be it a website, an application, or any other product that could benefit from some accessibility improvements.

Resources

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Getting Started With Lighthouse

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In this support document available from the Google Developers portal, you can find instructions on how to get started using Lighthouse, a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”.

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Implementing Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0

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Implementing Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 can be considered as “a guide to understanding and implementing Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0”. In particular, this W3C Working Group Note provides useful information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria in the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.

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How to Use Automatic Captioning for Youtube Videos and Live Streams

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In this tutorial made available by Youtube itself, you can learn how to improve the accessibility of your videos and live streams on the platform by leveraging its artificial-intelligence (AI) powered speech recognition system to get “automatic” captions for your title.

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Add Subtitles and Captions to Youtube Videos

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In this tutorial from Youtube’s help center you can learn how to upload, add and edit captions and subtitles for your Youtube videos.

TalkBack User Guide

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This is the official guide for TalkBack, the screen reader for Android developed by Google. In this guide you can find information that explains how to interact with any Android device using TalkBack, as it illustrates all the gestures and features it provides.

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Speakup User Guide

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This guide provides a lot of useful information on how to use Speakup, a linux screen reader for console-based applications. It illustrates the screen reader interface, as well as describing the features it provides and the keyboard shortcuts it supports.

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Complete Guide to Narrator

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This is the official documentation for Narrator, the screen reader developed by Microsoft that comes preinstalled on each PC running the Windows operating system. Other that documenting the latest improvements made to the screen reader, this manual describes its features, the supported keyboard shortcuts and provides guidance on how to use it to explore and manipulate user interfaces, web pages and other documents.

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Voiceover (screen reader) Documentation

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This is the official documentation that explains how to use and configure VoiceOver, the screen reader that is available in every Apple product. Although there are many common features, using VoiceOver on each product requires slightly different knowledge.

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NVDA User Guide

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This is the official support documentation for the Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader. Being the official user manual for the product, it is very comprehensive and explains all the features provided by the screen reader, including the most advanced ones.

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Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility

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In this comprehensive tutorial by WebAIM you can get useful directions on how you can use the free and open source NVDA screen reader to test and evaluate the accessibility of your web page, application or document as quickly as possible.

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