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A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) [1] that renders text and image content as speech or braille output. Screen readers are essential to people who are blind, [2] and are useful to people who are visually impaired, [2] illiterate, or have a learning disability. [3]
Brazilian Portuguese screen reader. MSAA support. Latest info about it is from December 2007 [12] Linux Screen Reader (LSR) GNOME: Unix-like Free and open source (New BSD License) It was an alternative screen reader to Orca led by IBM started in 2006. However, it was ceased in 2007 when IBM focused their resources in other projects. [13] It ...
A 2023–2024 screen reader user survey by WebAIM, a web accessibility company, found JAWS to be the most popular desktop/laptop screen reader worldwide for primary usage (at 40.5%), while 60.5% of participants listed it as a commonly used screen reader, ranking it second in this measure behind NVDA.
Kevin Kelly believes that we are transitioning from "book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality". [12] [13] Anne Mangen holds that because of the materialist nature of a printed book the reader is more engaged with a text, while the opposite is true with a digital text in which the reader is engaged in a "shallower, less focused ...
The name Orca, which is another term for a killer whale, is a nod to the long-standing tradition of naming screen readers after aquatic creatures, including the Assistive Technology product on Windows called JAWS (which stands for Job Access With Speech), the early DOS screen reader called Flipper, [3] and the UK vision impairment company ...
Narrator is a screen reader in Microsoft Windows. Developed by Professor Paul Blenkhorn in 2000, [ 1 ] the utility made the Windows operating system more accessible for blind and visually impaired users.
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