Screen readers

[flutem3]

Hello to one and all,

Has anyone had any experience with screen readers? I downloaded ReadPlease and can get it to work on email and things I have written like this. However, I have no idea how someone who is blind could set it up.

My problem, however, is that I am unable to get it to work on our church website. I read the directions, read help, and still didn't get it. I wrote support. The woman referred me to a website where screen reader was in use. As you know, that didn't help at all.

What I asked her to do was to send me an example of how to set a page from my website up, and I gave her the URL of the page. I figured I could use that as a template for the other pages. However, she just referred me to the other website again. I don't think she knows how to do it.

I have also discovered, which many of you probably knew but I didn't, that the website and the person using the website must be using the same screen reader. Evidently, there is no generic screen reader which will work on all websites. In that case, it would seem to me that a person could get really refused if he/she had to contend with a zillion kinds of screen readers.

I would appreciate your wisdom and wise-cracks.

Carol

[Faithhb_lutheran]

accessability is still coming out of it's infancy, the best way to try and get your site to work with all kinds of handicap enabled programs is to make it as accessible as possible. Mozilla has extensions for developing accessibility and others have posted around here on that exact topic, The best advice I can give is try to piece by piece add accessibility to your site ( you already came a long way by adding alt text to your images.).

[flutem3]

Kyle wrote:

"The best advice I can give is try to piece by piece add accessibility to your site ( you already came a long way by adding alt text to your images.)."

Thank you, Kyle,

I didn't realize that the add-ons had been covered. Since I wasn't very familiar with Firefox and Mozilla, the information probably went right over my head. I thought maybe there were some add-ons which were really special that I might miss because of my unfamiliarity with them.

But I will take time and check them out as you suggested.

Thanks for noticing the alt text. One thing I noticed is that sometimes it is not necessary to put it if the description is under a picture, for example. In that case, a reader would read it twice. I tried to watch that as well.

I will make Mozilla the object of my newest study. :)

Carol

[Faithhb_lutheran]

Carol,

while we have had some posts on mozilla extensions what I meant was that there are some very good posts about how to do general accessability which will thus make working with the screen readers easier.