Screen Readers
In this section you can find references to some common screen readers, a form of assistive technology. They consists of software applications that attempt to convey what sighted people can see on a screen to their users via non-visual means, including text-to-speech TTS, (aca synthetic voices), sound icons (short sound effects with specific meanings), a Braille display.[2] They do this by applying a wide variety of techniques that include, for example, interacting with dedicated accessibility APIs, using various operating system features (like inter-process communication and querying user interface properties), and employing hooking techniques, or a combination of them.
Screen readers are available for a wide variety of products including personal computers (with any well-known operating system), smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. In order to acquire the information they need to present to their users such applications implement different techniques, with the main one being the interaction with specific “accessibility APIs”.
Resources
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Voiceover (screen reader) Documentation
Vincenzo Rubano·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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Vincenzo Rubano·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.
Read moreUsing NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility
Vincenzo Rubano·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.
Read moreNon Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)
Vincenzo Rubano·NVDA (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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