He was sent on a trip to Chicago to train a high-profile customer — a businessman named Bill Joyce — on using a screen reader. An explosion in an industrial accident had left Joyce blind and ...

A screen reader is a software program that provides accessibility for blind or visually impaired individuals by reading aloud text on a computer screen or converting it to braille output.

And so the first thing to note about screen reader voices is that people who are blind and visually impaired generally prefer very robotic, very predictable screen reader voices. Noah: That is ...

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Screen-reader applications enable blind employees to use online applications and have meaningful employment in a range of professions and industries, according to the lawsuit. The VA has spent ...

Android users who use assistive devices can anticipate in a new era of connection and control, right on their phone. New to ...

A website designed without accessibility in mind becomes incomprehensible to a blind person using a screen reader. “You touch the screen where there should be a menu,” Stephens says ...

But some blind patients told KHN that the letters they receive can be impossible to read. Some websites contain coding that is incompatible with screen reader technology, which reads text aloud.

PepsiCo hired a blind worker for a North Carolina call ... spoke with PepsiCo and “offered to purchase a laptop, screen reader, and other technology as needed” to help accommodate the new ...

We've got some accessibility improvements to talk about with Google Chrome, too. First up, scanned PDFs are getting Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which means you'll be able to search for text ...

By Amanda Morris Patrick Perdue, a radio enthusiast who is blind, regularly shopped for ... sections of each page with his keyboard, his screen reader speaking the text. That all changed when ...