FOR more than 15 years,
screen readers have used text-to-speech technology to allow people who are blind or visually impaired to hear text on their computer screens.
Sites can provide more detail about images through "alt" tags, parts of the HTML code that give
screen reader software replacements for visual content that it cannot otherwise parse.
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Screen Reader is ideal for individuals whose sight is changing, or for organisations providing screen access to people with different sight levels.
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screen reader can only interpret on screen what's there, so programmatically if what's there is garbage, it can't do anything with it," Groves says.
Russo said, "and many of the games that are available are dated, not that fun, and rely on
screen readers in order to play.
Jennifer Garcia, AVRC computer instructor, said the
screen reader software, called Job Access with Speech (Jaws), reads everything displayed on the computer screen, enabling a blind user to "see" them.
If you include the name of person in the alt tag for a photograph, such as Abraham Lincoln, for example, and that photo is immediately followed by a sentence starting with the same name, the
screen reader would say, "Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States .
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screen reader scans the content of a GUI and reads the text parts with the use of synthesized speech.
JAWS, a Freedom Scientific product, is an example of a
screen reader that can be used with many software programs and internet browsers.
He is also part of a translation team that works to translate the Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)
screen reader, a free, open source and portable project for blind and visually impaired people, into Arabic.
The NCBE refused her requests to take the tests using assistive
screen reader and magnification software.
The kiosks use touchscreen technology in a way which is not accessible for a blind person and the National Federation of the Blind claims the airline could add an audio interface, tactile keyboard or interactive
screen reader to make it accessible to blind passengers.
