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WebVisum
WebVisum is a new Firefox extension that greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by putting the control in their hands.
Features include:
- Community driven tagging and page enhancements.
- CAPTCHA support, sign up to web sites and make forum posts and blog comments without asking for help!
- Built in helper functions for easier page navigation and less confusion.
- Numerous under the hood page tweaks designed to help screen reader users.
- High contrast page option
- Link and focus highlighting
The extension’s developers recommend the following for screen reader users:
- JAWS 8 or later.
- Window-Eyes beta 7 or later
The free and open source NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader0.6p1 or later.
Currently, the extension is only available for Firefox 3 running on Windows but the WebVisum team hope to develop a version for the Mac that will work with VoiceOver, the built in Mac screen reader, in the future.
To use the extension, first create a WebVisum account and then install the extension.