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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.