{"id":34,"date":"2009-12-29T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.assistivetechnologygroup.org.uk\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-12-29T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T11:15:54","slug":"demonstration-of-a-screenreader-end-user-browsing-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/demonstration-of-a-screenreader-end-user-browsing-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration of a screenreader end user browsing the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never observed an end user using assistive technology, or you&#8217;re familiar only with your own AT, it can be a real surprise how people operate when browsing, mailing, word processing and so on. While nothing can beat a session with an end user in action talking you through what they&#8217;re doing and responding to all your &#8220;but WHY do you do it THAT way?&#8221; questions, here&#8217;s the next best thing: a video of a screenreader user, Bruce Maguire, employing a refreshable Braille display (rather than synthesized speech) to browse the web:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/view\/67deda65-a437-4c09-98f2-65a428ae19c5\">Bruce Maguire uses a screenreader and refreshable Braille display.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dingoaccess.com\/accessibility\/refreshable-braille-and-the-web\/\">full transcript of Bruce&#8217;s presentation.<\/a> (Courtesy Roger Hudson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usability.com.au\/\">Web Usability)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never observed an end user using assistive technology, or you&#8217;re familiar only with your own AT, it can be a real surprise how people operate when browsing, mailing, word processing and so on. While nothing can beat a session with an end user in action talking you through what they&#8217;re doing and responding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/demonstration-of-a-screenreader-end-user-browsing-the-web\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demonstration of a screenreader end user browsing the web&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[45,19,6,44],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blind","category-web","tag-blind","tag-braille","tag-screenreader","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webbie.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}