For a website to be accessible to me and other blind or visually impaired users, there must be text. How I navigate with a screen readerīlind people can listen to, navigate, and interact with web content through screen reader software. This post will talk about my experience with screen readers and how I and other visually impaired people use the web. In school, my TVI-teacher of the visually impaired-taught me print as well as braille and how to use a computer with screen reading software. Yet the experience was not as frustrating as it could have been, had print been my primary source of information. Though expected, as the high pressure and optic nerve damage associated with glaucoma is often paired with gradual vision loss, it was still frustrating. And, as I grew up, I did experience some vision loss. And after almost 26 years, 90% speed isn't quite so jarring.īorn with congenital glaucoma, I could only ever see out of one eye. In response, I would usually smile and say that, though it is fast, I've been using screen readers-software designed to convert text to speech-nearly my entire life. "How do you understand that? It's speaking so fast," is a sentiment I hear often whenever someone experiences a screenreader for the first time. Look out for more guest blogs from Lily, coming soon! Lily is a graduate of Hunter College with a Bachelor's degree in creative writing. Editor's Note: We are delighted to share the first post from UsableNet's new Spring Marketing Intern, Lily Mordaunt.
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