Understanding Disability

Sarah Kinneer:

The first broad category is Visual.

Visual disabilities are sensory disabilities, ranging from some amount of vision loss, loss of visual acuity, or increased or decreased sensitivity to specific or bright colors to complete or uncorrectable loss of vision in either one or both eyes.

The World Health Organization states that at least 2.2 billion people have vision impairment or blindness.

Examples of visual disabilities include blindness, low vision, color deficiency, also known as color blindness, and deaf-blindness.

First, Blindness. Some people are completely blind, unable to see anything. Others can perceive light versus dark or the general shapes of large objects, but cannot read text or recognize people by sight.

Next, Low Vision. Permanently reduced vision that cannot be corrected with regular glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery.

Color Vision Deficiency. This impairs a person's ability to distinguish certain color combinations.

Deaf-blindness includes both deafness and blindness. Most deaf-blind people are not completely deaf nor completely blind but retain some hearing and sight. It is a rare condition that requires touch as the primary means of communication.

People with visual disabilities experience barriers like:

• Materials, such as books, restaurant menus, and navigation aids unavailable in alternate formats, such as digital files or braille.

• Speakers who do not provide descriptions that would help with navigation or understanding information otherwise conveyed visually.

• Lack of transcripts of video or audio materials made available in braille.

• In websites and other technologies, images, controls, and other structural elements without text alternatives.

• Lack of tactile sign language interpretation.

• Objects and travel paths that become obstacles.

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Sarah Kinneer:

The next category of disability is Auditory.

Auditory impairment is the partial or total hearing loss, permanent or fluctuating. Hard of hearing, or HOH, refers to people with hearing loss ranging from mild to severe who still have some useful hearing and may communicate through sign language or spoken language with or without amplification.

The World Health Organization states that over 5% of the world's population, or 430 million people, require rehabilitation to address their disabling hearing loss. The prevalence of hearing loss increases with age, especially among those older than 60. Over 25% are affected by disabling hearing loss.

Also in this category is Auditory Processing Disorder or APD. Often described as having greater than expected difficulty hearing and understanding speech, even though no measurable hearing loss exists. All the parts of the hearing pathway are working well. APD is not the inability to hear. It's the inability to interpret, organize, or analyze what's heard.

Barriers for people with auditory disabilities include:

• Missing sign language interpretation or text transcripts for events.

• Environments that are loud or present competing sounds.

• Audio in videos and films that is presented without captions or transcripts.

• Media players that do not support captions or options to control the volume, size, and colors of captions.

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Sarah Kinneer:

The next category is the most common type of disability in the United States, which is a disability that affects a person's mobility.

These disabilities include limb loss or body shape differences, dexterity or fine motor control challenges, or chronic fatigue or pain. Disability and mobility can be congenital, acquired with age, or the consequence of disease or injury.

To put mobility disability in perspective, 5% of people aged 21 to 64 and 31% of people over 75 have a mobility disability.

Barriers for people with mobility or body shape disabilities include:

• Seating that is too small or at the wrong height.

• Appliances and controls that are out of reach or require touch instead of voice commands.

• Steps, thresholds, and other obstacles to gaining entry to a space.

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Sarah Kinneer:

The next category of disability is cognitive.

Cognitive disabilities may occur on their own or result from a variety of conditions or injuries, such as traumatic brain injury. They may also co-occur with other types of disabilities. Examples of cognitive disabilities include:

• Intellectual Disabilities

• Reading and Dyslexia

• Math and Computation, or Dyscalculia

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD

• Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD

• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

Intellectual Disabilities [Starts at 0:51]

Intellectual disabilities are characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning, reasoning, learning, problem-solving, and adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills. Note that definitions vary depending on the country. Intellectual disabilities in some countries are called learning disabilities in others. It is estimated that between 1 to 3% of the global population, or about 200 million people, have an intellectual disability.

Reading Disabilities or Dyslexia [Starts at 1:38]

Reading disabilities may include an inability to perceive text or to process the meaning of words, phrases, and ideas. The disability may result from a congenital difference, injury, delayed development, or neurological or physical disability. It is estimated that between 5 to 10% of the population has dyslexia, but this number could also be as high as 17%.

Math and Computational Disabilities or Dyscalculia [Starts at 2:13]

Math and computational disabilities impact a person's ability to learn and communicate mathematical concepts. Dyscalculia involves an inability to understand arithmetic and how to calculate. An estimated 3 to 6% of people have dyscalculia. This disability can be complicated by dysgraphia, an inability to draw or copy figures and graphs, and anxiety.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) [Starts at 2:51]

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is a developmental disability characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that affects approximately 11% of the population.

Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) [Starts at 3:11]

Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, constitutes a diverse group of conditions related to the development of the brain and affects approximately 1% of people. The abilities and needs of autistic people vary and can evolve. While some people with autism can live independently, others have severe disabilities and require lifelong care and support.

Nonverbal Learning Disability [3:41]

People with normal intelligence and language development have trouble with social skills, sensory input, and transitions. Some signs of nonverbal learning disabilities are:

• Great vocabulary and verbal expression.

• Excellent memory skills.

• Attention to detail but missing the big picture.

• Poor abstract reasoning.

• Concrete thinking.

• Poor coordination.

• Trouble adjusting to changes.

• Anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.

Studies estimate around 1 in 100, or 1% of children in the United States may have a nonverbal learning disability.

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Sarah Kinneer:

The next category of disability is speech.

Speech disorders can range from mild slurred speech to the complete inability to move the mouth to speak. The ability to physically speak may be completely unrelated to the person's language capabilities. They may be able to read, write, and understand language even if their mouth structure or neuromuscular connections do not allow them to articulate.

Speech disorders may be caused by or be a side effect of underlying disabilities. A person's speech may improve, remain stable, or worsen over time.

Barriers for people with speech disabilities include:

• Lack of text-based alternatives for speech communication.

• Voice recognition systems without alternative input capability.

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Alisa Smith: 

Assistive technologies.

Assistive technologies, or AT, is software and hardware that people with disabilities use to interact with computers or mobile devices.

Assistive technology can include screen readers that translate text into speech or braille. Screen magnifiers scale up content sizes, and augmentative and alternative communication, or AAC devices, help people participate in conversations. Other types of assistive technology include selection switches, adaptive keyboards, trackballs or pads for navigation, reading assistants, and notetaking software.

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Jen Long:

Hello! My name is Jennifer. I am hard of hearing, which means deaf. Without the aid of hearing aids I could not lip-read and speak as well. I have been using some form of captioning device since I was 10 years old. I am a member of the AudioEye Alliance Team. We are people with disabilities who work with AudioEye on projects like testing, training, and marketing. I use assistive technology called captioning to access the internet on my Mac. Captioning is an aid that provides written translations to speech in real time. Today, I'll use it to navigate a demonstration website. You will see and hear as I navigate. Let’s get started!

So I'm on the website, and I'm exploring, and here we have some videos for you to get familiar. So I see a video and I see that the closed captioning is working. So I'm going to play, see if it's working.

Video Recording:

Our campus provides opportunities for students in all fields, from art to engineering.

Jen Long:

If I want to change my captions, like if it's too small, I need a bigger size, I can change the font.

Video Recording:

A clear, rich tradition. But our students are immersed in cutting-edge research.

Jen Long:

So if I want to see a bigger font size, font is bigger ... Well, let's see if that looks bigger.

Video Recording: 

[inaudible 00:01:59] ranked as one of the country's top institutions.

Jen Long:

It's better. So I utilize the captions because it helps me to understand what they're talking about because I can hear the people in the background, but I don't know what they're saying. So if I turn on the captions, it makes more sense what they're saying.

Video Recording:

Imagine yourself here.

Jen Long:

And that is the basics of using captions to interact with videos online. Until next time, thanks for choosing AudioEye for your accessibility learning.

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Alisa Smith:

Let's move on to testing keyboard-only navigation. First, let's examine the key commands and then review what to look for on your pages to ensure keyboard users are supported. Use the tab key to navigate interactive elements like links or form controls. Shift plus tab will navigate backward through the interactive elements. Use enter to navigate links or buttons and to submit most forms. The spacebar activates checkboxes and buttons, expands a select menu, or scrolls the window.  Arrow keys navigate radio buttons, select boxes or drop-down menus, sliders, tab panels, and tree menus. The escape key closes dialogs and menus.

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Kristie Filina:

Hello everyone. I am Kristie. I am a screen magnification user and photographer. A magnifier is an AT type that enhances images and enlarges the focus on my screen. It allows me to read websites. Today, I will use it to navigate a demonstration website. You will see and hear as I navigate. Let's get started.

I have it set up as a shortcut to where I hit the command key and hit the wheel on my mouse to zoom in and out. But if you don't want to do that, let's go into settings on the Mac. Go into accessibility. There it is. Let me zoom in a little bit more. So that's where you have your voiceover in the menu bar. Then you have zoom display. Let's go into zoom.

So, if don't want that shortcut with the command and the wheel on the mouse, what you can do to use the scroll gesture with your modified keys to zoom, you can use command control command, which is what I use. You can use the control or the option key. So, if you use the control key, that's how you turn the shortcut on. So, if you don't want the shortcut, let me turn that off. You can use the keyboard for shortcuts, and that would be command, option, equal sign zooms in. If you did it on the keyboard, command, option, minus sign zooms out.

So, right now, I have it zoomed out all the way. The website is Virtually the Best. That's the name of the website. So with my Mac, I will use my command key and the wheel on my mouse and zoom in for my magnifier. So now I am zoomed in enough to where I can see it says Virtual Vista Oasis. That's up in the left-hand corner. And then, of course, it has this cover photo that has flowers on the right side.

Now, let's see what this website actually is. It says check in, check out. Oh, it says adults. Then, it has a drop-down box that says one, two, three, four plus. Then it has children, one down to four plus. Then it says you can check availability. So this must be, yep, it is a hotel check-in site. Wow, that's pretty cool.

And that was the basics of navigating a website with screen magnifier. Until next time, thanks for choosing AudioEye for your accessibility learning.

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Empish Thomas:

Hello, everyone. My name is Empish Thomas, and I am a screen reader user using specifically JAWS. JAWS stands for Job Access With Speech. It's made by a company called Freedom Scientific and what it does is text-to-speech. So if there's a website or a Windows operating system like Microsoft Word or Excel or PowerPoint, it will read the text on the screen. If there's an audio description for a graphic on a website, it will read that information as well.

Today, I am going to use JAWS to navigate a demonstration of a website. You will hear my voice and the computer speaking to me, and you will see the screen scroll as I navigate. Let's get started.

Introduction to JAWS [Starts at 0:57]

Empish Thomas:

I'm about to do a demo of a website to check for accessibility. Whenever I come to a website on the internet, I will hit CTRL and Home-

JAWS:

Medica Hospital.

Empish Thomas:

... to go up to the top of the page. The reason I do that is as pages load, the JAWS and the PC cursor can get out of whack. I want to make sure I have good orientation, so I always do CTRL Home to take me back up to the top. I'll also hit Insert and T-

JAWS:

Title is Medica Hospital dash.

Empish Thomas:

... to read the title bar, to also make sure that I'm on the right page and in the right location. All of this is for orientation purposes.

As I go down the website, sometimes-

JAWS:

This website is audio [inaudible 00:01:54], and may require the use of same page... List of three options. Link Facebook.

Empish Thomas:

... I will arrow down line-by-line, just to get an idea of what's on the page. I'm going to do that now, just a simple arrow down with the arrow keys.

JAWS:

Link LinkedIn. Link YouTube.

Empish Thomas:

The first part I'm seeing are the social media handles-

JAWS:

List end. Welcome to Medical Hospital and Specialty Care.

Empish Thomas:

... for this particular website, and then I see the welcome message at the top here.

JAWS:

Link Patient Portal. This is a graphic [inaudible 00:02:12] same page link line. Wellness.

Empish Thomas:

And I'm going to keep arrowing down just to get an idea of what the website is talking about.

JAWS:

Heading level two, Compassionate. Heading level two, Care When You Need IT. Link, Make a, Link, Pay Bill. Total Care.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, so keep arrowing a little bit.

JAWS:

Heading level two, Community Based.

Empish Thomas:

I'm noticing that this is a medical type related site.

JAWS:

Heading level two, Mental Wellness. Patient Support link, Community link, Contact. Wellness.

Empish Thomas:

Okay.

JAWS:

Heading level two, Compassionate. Heading level two, Care When You. Link. Make... Link.

Empish Thomas:

Hit CTRL Home to go back up to the top-

JAWS:

Medica…

Shortcut Key commands [Starts at 2:39]

Empish Thomas:

And I'm going to use some of the JAWS shortcut key commands. The first one I like to use is H, which is for heading. So as I press H, JAWS will jump me to each heading on the website.

JAWS:

Compassionate Care, heading level two.

Empish Thomas:

The first one is Compassionate Care.

JAWS:

Community Based Mental Wellness, heading level two.

Empish Thomas:

Second one is Community Based.

JAWS:

Compassionate Care, heading level two.

Empish Thomas:

And then we'll keep going until I check all of the headings.

JAWS:

Community Based Mental Wellness, heading level two.

Empish Thomas:

It looks like there's two headings on this page.

JAWS:

Compassionate Care, heading level two.

Empish Thomas:

So I'm going go back up to Community-Based Mental Wellness-

JAWS:

Community Based Mental Wellness, heading level two. Heading level two, Mental Wellness. Patient Support Groups.

Empish Thomas:

... and then arrow down to read about that information.

JAWS:

Link, Community Services. Link, Contact US. Prev.

Empish Thomas:

Okay.

JAWS:

Next 01 providing... Heading level one, Welcome to Medica. Excellence in Healthcare... Our dedicated... From advanced diagnostics... Life [inaudible 00:03:25]. Community. Heading level two, emergency treatments.

Empish Thomas:

Just arrow it down a little more to get more idea of what's on the website.

JAWS:

Staff 24. A wide range... Link, read more.

Empish Thomas:

Okay.

JAWS:

Heading level two, High Quality...

Empish Thomas:

Now, sometimes what I'll also do with the website, especially if it's one where I need to sign in or use a password-

JAWS:

First name [inaudible 00:03:44].

Empish Thomas:

... I'll hit E for edit, which will take me to an edit box. And on this site it took me to one that said first name. I'm not sure exactly what I'm signing up for, why it wants my first name.

JAWS:

First name. Combo box collapsed, dash select doctor dash.

Empish Thomas:

So, I'm going to arrow up to get more information to see what this is about.

JAWS:

Select Doctor. Combo box collapsed dash select department dash.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, this is a search that seems to want you to search for a doctor.

JAWS:

Select department. Combo box collapsed dash select location.

Empish Thomas:

And you can select different things here.

JAWS:

Select location.

Empish Thomas:

Select location.

JAWS:

Combo box, select department. Combo select.

Empish Thomas:

Select the department. That sort of thing.

JAWS:

Combo. The first name, edit, last edit, email, edit, phone number, edit message, required edit. Request appointment button.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, those edit boxes are for me to send an email to request an appointment to see the doctor.

JAWS:

Heading level two, Latest News and Research.

Empish Thomas:

So that's what that is.

JAWS:

Medica Wellness [inaudible 00:04:37]. Medical hospital.

Empish Thomas:

I'm going to also use B for radio buttons to see if any of those are on the sites. I'm going to press B.

JAWS:

Request appointment button.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, request an appointment. That's a radio button.

JAWS:

Button. Edit. Button.

Empish Thomas:

And then there's another button here.

JAWS:

List of three items.

Empish Thomas:

I'm not quite sure.

JAWS:

Link, accessibility. Link, book an appointment.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, that talks about book an appointment, accessibility.

JAWS:

Link. List of button. Edit. Email. Edit. Button.

Empish Thomas:

That might be a submit button.

JAWS:

List of three items. Link, accessibility. Link, book an appointment.

Empish Thomas:

And then there's other buttons here, I'm going to press again.

JAWS:

Link, terms of... Explore your accessibility options button.

Empish Thomas:

And then there's option... Oh, explore your accessibility options. That's a good thing.

JAWS:

Explore your accessibility. Wrapping to top. Request appointment button.

Empish Thomas:

Okay, those are all the buttons that are on this particular-

JAWS:

Medical hospital.

Empish Thomas:

... site.

Links List Dialog [Starts at 5:18]

One other thing I'll do when I go to a website is look for links and I will press insert and-

JAWS:

Links list dialog. Links, list view.

Empish Thomas:

... insert F7-

JAWS:

Links list dialogue.

Empish Thomas:

... will bring up a links list-

JAWS:

Links, list view. Skip to main content. [inaudible 00:05:34].

Empish Thomas:

... And it will be all the links that are on the website.

JAWS:

Skip to main... Facebook. Two of 55.

Empish Thomas:

These links are typically in alphabetical order.

JAWS:

LinkedIn. Three of 55. Facebook. Two.

Empish Thomas:

So the first one was-

JAWS:

Skip to main... Facebook. Two of 55.

Empish Thomas:

First one was Facebook, the social media.

JAWS:

LinkedIn.

Empish Thomas:

LinkedIn.

JAWS:

Three, YouTube.

Empish Thomas:

YouTube.

JAWS:

Four, patient portal.

Empish Thomas:

Patient portal.

JAWS:

Five. [inaudible 00:05:55]. Medical hospital comma. Established 1892 comma.

Empish Thomas:

And then I can also, if I know the name of the link, I can just press the button. So since I know Facebook-

JAWS:

Home. Skip to main path. Facebook. Two of 55.

Empish Thomas:

Is a link I can hit F, it'll take me straight to Facebook and it says two of 55. And what that means is I'm on the second link on the web page and there are 55 other links on this website.

JAWS:

LinkedIn, three of 55.

Empish Thomas:

So it's easier to, if you know the name of the link to press it in alphabetical order-

JAWS:

[inaudible 00:06:23] Patient portal.

Empish Thomas:

Or if you don't, you can arrow down-

JAWS:

Medical Hospital comma established 1890.

Empish Thomas:

... to it. Now, what you can also do is I can press enter, that will open up another page from that link in the links list or I can press tab-

JAWS:

Move to link button.

Empish Thomas:

... And move to the link-

JAWS:

To activate press space bar period. [inaudible 00:06:49].

Empish Thomas:

So maybe I just want to move to it, but I don't want to launch it.

JAWS:

Activate link button.

Empish Thomas:

I can activate the link.

JAWS:

To activate press space bar. Cancel button.

Empish Thomas:

Or I can hit cancel.

JAWS:

To activate, press spacebar period all plus space.

Empish Thomas: 

And I'll hit cancel to get out of that.

Other shortcut key commands [Starts at 6:54]

Empish Thomas:

One other shortcut key command you can use with JAWS is visited link and unvisited link. So if you want to look back at the links you've been to on a particular website, you can hit the letter V and it will take you to a visited.

JAWS:

Visited link, Facebook.

Empish Thomas:

And JAWS will say visited, and then the name of the link. So here on this page it said visited-

JAWS:

Visited link, Facebook.

Empish Thomas:

... Facebook. So that tells me that I have visited the Facebook page. Now if I want to get a list of the links that I have not visited, I can press U-

JAWS:

Same page link number [inaudible 00:07:33]. Link accessibility. Wrapping to top.

Empish Thomas:

... And it will just take me through all the links on the page-

JAWS:

Same page link, skip to main content.

Empish Thomas:

... that I have not visited. And of course it will not say visited. So that tells me that that was an unvisited link. Sometimes when I'm on a website and I want to find a particular word or phrase and I don't want to use the other key commands like radio buttons or headers or the links list, I will do what they call a virtual find. And that command is control F.

JAWS:

Virtual find. [inaudible 00:08:09].

Empish Thomas:

An edit box will pop up. Say find what.

JAWS:

To set the value use the arrow keys or type the value period. [inaudible 00:08:17].

Empish Thomas:

And I will type the word in. So I'm going to type the word bill.

JAWS:

B-I-L-L.

Empish Thomas:

Press enter.

JAWS:

Bill. Enter. Visited link, pay bill.

Empish Thomas:

And it took me back to the visited link that says Pay Bill.

JAWS:

Total care. Visited link, pay bill.

Empish Thomas:

So I'm right where I needed to be. So that's another way to find things on a website. This is a good feature to use if you have a really busy website or a website with lots of links, lots of headers, lots of radio buttons, and you just want to get to that particular section you're familiar with. I just hit insert and F, type in the keyword or the phrase, hit enter and it will take me straight to that area. Just a way to get there a little faster.

So today in this session, I went over a couple of different shortcut key commands for JAWS. We discussed the insert and T for the title bar, which is good for orientation. We also discussed H for headings, B for radio buttons, E for the edit box. And also a really cool feature that I absolutely love the control and F function to do a virtual find. I hope all of this information was helpful to you today, and thank you so much for listening to this presentation.

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Ana Jacob:

Hi, my name is Ana Jacob. I'm a thirty-something-year-old white female with shoulder-length brown hair. I'm coming to you from my home office here in Memphis, Tennessee, and I'm a member of the AudioEye A11iance Team. We're people with disabilities who work with AudioEye on testing, training, and sometimes marketing. 

Introduction to VoiceOver [Starts at 0:26]

Ana Jacob:

I use a system of technology called VoiceOver to access the internet on my Mac. VoiceOver is a screen reader that translates text to speech, so I can know what's on my screen by what my computer is saying to me. VoiceOver allows me to access all the things I normally do on my computer, like checking email, sending messages, and testing websites. I'll be using it today to navigate a demonstration website. You'll hear my voice as well as VoiceOver speaking to me. A small window will also display the screen reader's speech. So, let's get started. So, we're going to start with talking about how to get VoiceOver up and running. To start VoiceOver on the Mac, you hold down the command key and press F5. This also turns it off, so I will demonstrate briefly.

VoiceOver:

VoiceOver off. VoiceOver on Safari. Blissful Bite Bis...

Ana Jacob:

And that's how you turn VoiceOver on.

Command keys [Starts at 1:31]

So, for most navigation with VoiceOver, we use something that is called the VoiceOver command keys, and that is option and control plus whatever other key you need to navigate by heading or link, etc. We'll get into the details of that shortly. I have mine set to control + option, though you can also have it set to use caps lock.

One of the primary ways that I like to navigate a website is by headings. And the way you do that with VoiceOver is by holding the VoiceOver keys as well as the command key, and hitting H, like so.

VoiceOver:

Heading level one, visited. Blissful Bite Bistro. Heading level two, two items. Welcome to level one, Blissful Bite, level one. Heading level two, an exceptional virtual dining experience. Heading level three, welcome to Blissful by Bistro, where virtual dining meets culinary excellence. Heading level two, Blissful Bistro. Heading, level three, immersive experience.

Ana Jacob:

And I can move back a heading by holding down the option+command shift H.

VoiceOver:

Heading level two, Blissful Bistro. Heading level three., Welcome to Blissful Bite Bistro, where virtual dining meets culinary excellence. Heading level two, an exceptional virtual dining experience.

Ana Jacob:

The other way I can navigate a website is by jumping from one link to the next, and that uses VO+command+L. Like this.

VoiceOver:

Learn more. Lobster bisque, garlic bread barrel, crab cakes, cesar salad, Tuscan grilled chicken.

Ana Jacob:

And just like with headings, I can add the shift key to go back by links.

VoiceOver:

Caesar salad, crab cakes, garlic bread barrel.

Ana Jacob:

VO+command+V will let me move by links I've already been to, which we call visited links.

VoiceOver:

Visited link not found.

Ana Jacob:

In this case there aren't any, but if there were, that's where they would show up. I can also jump by graphics using the VO keys plus command plus G, like this.

VoiceOver:

Image, image, image, image, image, image.

Ana Jacob:

And likewise, I can add shift-

VoiceOver:

Image, image

Ana Jacob:

... to go back.

VoiceOver:

Image, image.

Ana Jacob:

Normally, there would be some alt text here, which would tell me what's in the image. But in this case, I'm just demonstrating how to move from one image to the next. The way I personally navigate most often is just using the VO keys plus left and right arrow to move back and forth. This gives me a more detailed view of what all is on the page, if I want to go more line by line and see what all is there, like this.

VoiceOver:

Heading level three, welcome to Blissful Bite Bistro, where virtual dining meets culinary excellence. Step into our immersive virtual world and embark on a gastronomic journey like no other. Indulge in a symphony of flavors with our innovative menu crafted by our expert chefs.

Ana Jacob:

And again, the left will take me back to the previous

VoiceOver:

Step into our immersive virtual world and embark on a gastronomic journey like no other.

The rotor [Starts at 4:59]

Ana Jacob:

Another useful tool that VoiceOver has is the rotor, and this lets you navigate easily between chosen elements. I'll give you an example.

VoiceOver:

Links menu.

Ana Jacob:

Right here, I have a list of all the links on the page, which I can navigate through with the arrow keys up and down.

VoiceOver:

Facebook, Instagram, Google plus, LinkedIn.

Ana Jacob:

I can also search the links by starting to type the first few letters. So, let's say I'm looking for the Facebook link. If I type FAC.

VoiceOver:

Facebook, four items.

Ana Jacob:

There's the Facebook link right there. And you can do this with other elements too. If I move left and right arrows-

VoiceOver:

Headings menu.

Ana Jacob:

... you have headings.

VoiceOver:

Form controls, landmarks menu.

Ana Jacob:

... Form controls, landmarks, and you can customize what elements show up in the rotor. And this makes getting around so much faster.

VoiceOver:

Frames menu.

Search [Starts at 5:55]

Ana Jacob:

Another feature I use a lot is the search feature, which means I can type in the word and see if it shows up anywhere on the page. Let's say I want to see if I can contact these people. I do VO+F.

VoiceOver:

Enter search text, previous search, CHR.

Ana Jacob:

And then, I type my phrase such as “contact” And to enter.

VoiceOver:

Contact.

Ana Jacob:

And that takes me to the first instance of the word “contact” on the page. 

So, these are the basics for navigating with VoiceOver for the first time. It's really intuitive once you get used to it. Thank you for choosing AudioEyeQ for your accessibility learning. See you next time.

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April Combs:

Hello, my name is April and I'm a visually impaired individual, and I'm a very honored, proud tester of the AudioEye community. Now, I use NVDA or Non-Visual Desktop Access. This is a screen reader that translates text to speech for me. So today, I will be using it to navigate a demonstration website. You're going to hear my voice, along with the screen reader, reading to me. You will also see the screen scrolling as I navigate.

So before we get into website navigation, there are a couple of options you can do to turn the screen reader on once your computer starts. Of course, you can set it, if you go into your settings when you're installing the screen reader, you will have an option to have it start up automatically. Some people use a shared computer, so that isn't always ideal.

So once your computer is booted up, you hit control, alt, N, and this will start NVDA for you. It will also restart it if you get in a glitch and are having trouble with your speech anytime during your browsing of web or listening to whatever it is you do on your computers.

There's our rooms and suites.

NVDA:

Single room, heading level two link.

April Combs:

Single room.

NVDA:

Link, $90/per night.

April Combs:

Now I just used the down arrow key and it says $90 per night.

NVDA:

Click through to your graphic-free website template.

April Combs:

And...

NVDA:

Link video graphic-free website template.

April Combs:

There's a website template that you usually... With it saying figure there and graphic, that's going to contain some type of image, most likely. So, that is the down arrow. Now I'm going to go back through with the up arrow key, which will take me back towards the top of the site.

NVDA:

Video link, $90/per night. Link heading level to single room.

April Combs:

Now I'm back at the room heading. Now if I-

NVDA:

I-S-I-N-

April Combs:

... right arrow-

NVDA:

... E-L-E.

April Combs:

It's going to take me-

NVDA:

Space.

April Combs:

By letter navigation. Or character by character, depending on what you're reading. I can then use the left arrow and-

NVDA:

$90 slash link heading level to [inaudible 00:03:12] heading figure graphic.

April Combs:

... the left arrow will take me back through from right to left. So that is the arrow navigation and the headings are a good way that I use or-

NVDA:

[inaudible 00:03:30].

April Combs:

... first familiarizing myself with the site.

NVDA:

Toggle the down arrow key to move the next line in the-

April Combs:

Another popular form is tab navigation.

NVDA:

[inaudible 00:03:40] mute. Currently unmuted it alt plus A button. A Virtual Vista Resort, virtual Vista [inaudible 00:03:44].

April Combs:

So I'll go back to the top of the page and I'm going to tap the tab key.

NVDA:

Skip to main content link. Banner landmark, Virtual Vista Oasis visited link. Main menu button.

April Combs:

So this is taking me through links, buttons.

NVDA:

Hotel-ent-demo.audioeye.com the link. And that it has auto complete land.

April Combs:

And we are in a form field at this point.

NVDA:

Demo has auto complete landing. Adults combo box one collapsed.

April Combs:

Coming to a combo box. So this is by all using the tab key, you can get through all these various points of the website. It will of course skip over paragraphs of blocks of text and then you will use shift tab-

NVDA:

[inaudible 00:04:38] has auto complete land. Check-in has auto complete land. Hotel-end-demo.audioeye.com link. Landmark main menu button.

April Combs:

... to move-

NVDA:

Virtual Vista Oasis visited link. Skip to main content link.

April Combs:

... backwards through the site.

Now we're going to share some link quick navigation keys. I'm back at the top-

NVDA:

This website has AudioEye.

April Combs:

... page and I'm going to tap the letter U.

NVDA:

Skip to main content link.

April Combs:

The letter U is going to take me through unvisited links.

NVDA:

Hotel-ent-demo.audioeye.com link. Learn more link. See video link.

April Combs:

Well, let's see. Let's go to the top.

NVDA:

This website has AudioEye-

April Combs:

Letter V will take me through-

NVDA:

Banner, landmark, Virtual Vista Oasis visited link.

April Combs:

... Visited links.

NVDA:

No next visited link.

April Combs:

And there's only one of those.

NVDA:

This website has Audio-

April Combs:

And a feature that NVDA has that I really like is the letter K. This will take me through all links of the page.

NVDA:

Skip to main content link, banner landmark Virtual Vista Oasis visited link, hotel-ent-demo.audioeye.com link, learn more link, see video link.

April Combs:

And then of course, as with the other elements, we can do-

NVDA:

Learn more link.

April Combs:

... shift V, shift U, shift K, to go backwards-

NVDA:

This website has AudioEye.

April Combs:

... through the links to get back up towards the top of the page. And the last one I touched on was the landmarks. If I hit the letter D-

NVDA:

Banner landmark Virtual Vista Oasis visited link.

April Combs:

... there's my banner landmark.

NVDA:

Content landmark list with four items link.

April Combs:

And there's the footer information.

NVDA:

Accessibility, help desk, complimentary [inaudible 00:06:40].

April Combs:

And the accessibility is the-

NVDA:

No next landmark.

April Combs:

We're going to have no next landmarks because I've gone through all of them.

NVDA:

This website has AudioEye enabled. Screen share, start video, alt plus C button.

April Combs:

There are a couple more quick navigation keys that I would like to show you. The letter C-

NVDA:

Adults combo box collapse screen.

April Combs:

... will take you through combo boxes.

NVDA:

Children combo box collapse too. No next combo box.

April Combs:

And then until we get to the end. And then if you come to the one that you want to interact with, can. That is the basics of navigating a website with NVDA. Until next time, thanks for choosing AudioEyeQ for your accessibility learning.

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