![]() There’s also Window-Eyes, which has been rising in usage. Jaws (AKA Job Access With Speech) is a popular one whose usage is dropping after many years. For example, I use NVDA because it’s really high-quality, it’s written by blind people, and I don’t have to keep looking for pirated copies because it’s free. Screen readers, just like other programs, have different features based on which one you are using. Finally, being able to handle WAI-ARIA is one of the features that has become important recently, as more and more websites adopt its usage (examples include Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook and so on). The more advanced level is granularity, such as being able to jump to a level one heading (that is, an h1 element) and so on. The more rudimentary functionality is to be able to move between different types of elements such as lists, headings, buttons, text fields, and so on. However, one of the more impressive features of any screen reader is usually in how it handles web content. For example, I can control the mouse with it, view the elements on the screen hierarchically (such as being able to go inside a menu bar, or to move on the items within a toolbar, etc). ![]() Every Day Tools Screen Readersīlind and visually impaired computer users use what is called a screen reader to-make a guess!-read the screen to them. With all that said, let’s cut the c**p and get to explaining what the title of this post actually says. You can refer to it if you feel like you want to know more of my background. If you still don’t feel like going through that, please keep it in mind. This is to encourage you to take a look at the link I gave in the very first line of the post, namely the Autobiography of a Blind Programmer. I gave my personal preference, and then went on to explain how this preference was formed. ![]() I would point out things from my past that were not about the tools at all. However, I found my writing getting sidetracked all the time. Last week, I originally started out writing this post. When I posted the Autobiography of a Blind Programmer, I received a lot of requests asking about the way I use the computer, how I write code, and how I understand abstract concepts.
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