Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web...
by VBprogrammer on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:44AM
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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
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The most popular FOSS screen reader by a very, very large margin is NVDA (https://www.nvaccess.org). It is Windows specific, though.
Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web...
by mwcampbell on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:32PM
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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.
Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web...
by mch82 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:03AM
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@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