Quoting the wikipedia page on the topic~(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology), assistive technologies (ATs for short) is a term for indicating assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities or the elderly population. People with disabilities often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently, or even with assistance. ADLs are self-care activities that include toileting, mobility (ambulation), eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal device care. Assistive technology can ameliorate the effects of disabilities that limit the ability to perform ADLs. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. For example, wheelchairs provide independent mobility for those who cannot walk, while assistive eating devices can enable people who cannot feed themselves to do so. Due to assistive
In this section you can find some useful resources on assistive technologies, especially focusing on the ones you can use to test and evaluate the accessibility of your products, or let you understand how people with disabilities could use them if they are accessible.
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Quoting its official documentation, gnome-orca (often called just “orca”, but pay attention not to confuse it with other things with the same name) is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop environment in a linux or solaris operating system.
Read moreVoiceover is a screen reader that is embedded within each and every Apple product. It allows blind and visually impaired people to use Apple products such as the mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, iPod, HomePod, and even Apple TV.
Read moreNamed in honor of Louis Braille, Liblouis is an open-source library that provides support for braille translation and back-translation. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreNVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) is a free, open source screen reader that effectively enables blind and visually impaired people to use a personal computer (be it a desktop or a laptop) that runs the Microsoft Windows operating system: it does so by providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille.
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