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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This worked out mostly because of Diablo 4's screen reader feature. Tj_the_blind_gamer has to rely on audio cues to understand what's being shown on screen. The Diablo 4 screen reader can read map ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After becoming blind in his late 20s, designer and artist Marco Salsiccia had to learn to ...

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 ...