Steve Sawczyn, Solutions Architect at Deque Systems, demonstrates how he uses a screen reader to navigate the web. In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Steve provides developers, designers, business users or anyone new to digital accessibility a first-hand experience of how people who are visually impaired navigate the web. In this video you will:
-Experience a screen reader simulation first-hand
-Understand how a screen reader navigates a web page
-Hear how a screen reader announces the content on a page
-Discover common design barriers that trap or make the web inaccessible to persons using assistive technologies
-Learn an introduction to accessibility testing with screen readers.
00:00 Meet Steve Sawczyn
01:01 Screen Readers & Who Uses Them
02:57 How do they enable access to digital content?
03:47 Popular Screen Reader apps
06:01 Screen Reader Demo
18:38 VoiceOver Demo on iPad
25:01 How you can begin testing
28:11 Recommended Resources
30:41 Q&A
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7 авг 2024