Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by mwcampbell on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:55AM (#21191706)

You're absolutely right. Aside from a few stubborn hold-outs, the blind people I know stopped browsing with Lynx, or Links or w3m, in the early 2000s at the latest.

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by VBprogrammer on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:44AM (#21193512)

I have no experience at all with screen readers. Is there a modern FOSS screen reader that would help give an idea of what a visually impaired user would realistically experience?

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by dbjorge on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:57AM (#21193659)

The most popular FOSS screen reader by a very, very large margin is NVDA (https://www.nvaccess.org). It is Windows specific, though.

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by mwcampbell on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:32PM (#21194063)

There's also the Orca screen reader for GNOME. And I believe TalkBack for Android and ChromeVox for Chrome OS are both open source.

If you don't care so much about open source, as I said elsewhere on the thread, Mac has VoiceOver built in (Command+F5 to enable), and Windows has Narrator (Control+Windows+Enter to enable on recent versions).

Disclosure: I'm a dev on the Narrator team at Microsoft, but I'm posting on my own behalf here.

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by mch82 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:03AM (#21212675)

@Zeldman tweeted this screen reader survey, which includes free/non-free options plus lots of usage data... https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey8/

Edit: source tweet is https://twitter.com/zeldman/status/1180100942131277824

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