{"id":74726,"date":"2021-03-27T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74726"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:28:54","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-use-a-screen-reader-vasquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/03\/27\/what-is-it-like-to-use-a-screen-reader-vasquez\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it like to use a screen reader? [Vasquez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knowbility.org\/blog\/2021\/what-is-it-like-to-use-a-screen-reader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is it like to use a screen reader?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from knowbility.org by Anthony Vasquez<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In January, I, along with Texas State University computer science student Su Park, demonstrated screen reader interactions as part of Knowbility\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/knowbility.org\/services\/online-training\/screen-readers-in-the-wild\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Screen Readers in the Wild<\/a>\u00a0webinar. Both Su and I are blind and have used screen readers since childhood. We weren\u2019t able to answer all attendee questions during the webinar, so I\u2019m continuing the discussion here. I hope that after reading this, you\u2019ll better understand the roles that screen readers and accessible content play in the lives of blind people, and learn of a few easy ways you can improve the user experience. So, let\u2019s jump right in!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/knowbility.org\/services\/online-training\/screen-readers-in-the-wild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screen Readers\u00a0in the Wild,<\/a> you can still watch the demos!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/502344993\/f8938fe260\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Using JAWS to find a video on YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/502348021\/93f51246ae\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Using NVDA to find stock information on Google Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/502348251\/2f3cd57a28\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Using NVDA to customize an order on See\u2019s Candies\u2019 website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/502341456\/29176d676e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Using VoiceOver to order from Coffee Bean iPhone app<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it like to use a screen reader? &#8212; from knowbility.org by Anthony Vasquez Excerpt: In January, I, along with Texas State University computer science student Su Park, demonstrated screen reader interactions as part of Knowbility\u2019s\u00a0Screen Readers in the Wild\u00a0webinar. Both Su and I are blind and have used screen readers since childhood. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,8,286,382,309,345,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-platforms","category-reading","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74728,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74726\/revisions\/74728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}