JAWS Video
Victor Tsaran is an accessibility engineer at Yahoo! who focuses on developing best practices for the creation of websites that work well with screen readers. In this video, he provides an introduction to some of the things that work well in the world of screen readers and others that fare more poorly.
If you haven’t seen a screen reader being used, I strongly recommend that you take the time out to watch this video (duration: 27:23). It will help explain why issues such as list markup and correct use of header elements is so important when developing an accessible web site.
Please note that this video is courtesy of YUI Theater which also includes Karo Caran’s An Introduction to Screen Magnification Software. All of the presentations require Flash and unfortunately, are not captioned, to the best of my knowledge.
Hello Mel, thanks for posting this video here. I have been trying to find out how JAWS performs as I’ve heard much about it in PWAG’s mailing list but until now I haven’t had the chance to see (hear) it in action. This video provided good insight. Cheers!
Arielle
- September 21, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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