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A Brief Introduction to JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver

A screen reader is an important accessibility tool for people with no or limited vision. People who are blind or those with low vision can use a screen reader to navigate the computer. Screen readers will read contents on the …

Ilknur Eren on Sep 1, 2022 (Updated on Sep 7, 2022)

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CSS Can Influence Screenreaders

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Ben Myers covers some clear examples of where CSS totally changes what some screen readers announce. For example, some screenreader will see text-transform: uppercase; on a button label that says “Add” and read it like an abbreviation, “A.D.D.”

These cases

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 23, 2020

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How to Section Your HTML

The sectioning elements in HTML5 are <nav>, <aside>, <article>, and <section>. <body> is also kind of a sectioning element since all content lying inside of it is part of the default document section.

Here is …

Daniel Tonon on Jun 18, 2019 (Updated on Jul 17, 2020)