So if I open the Start Menu. [Presenter clicks on Start] [Narrator is speaking as the Presenter moves the mouse around the screen] So the Narrator is reading everything to me that I would normally be able to see. When I open the Start menu I can see that it said my focus, where the cursor is at, was in the Search box, and a number of there’s items that are in the Search Result pane, which are my default applications. I have it set to a default speed; a person who uses a screen reader with any regularity is going to have that much quicker, actually going to be listening more for specific cues, in because they’re the same way the sort of visually not look at everything on the we’ll screen, but looking for cues about what we want. So an we’re that’s idea of how the screen reader would work. If I then went to... [Narrator program speaking] So any time I move or I change something, telling me audibly it’s where at so I know the context of what to I’m I’m doing. And let’s get what we were talking about with the document, is understanding that things that we would see are going to be delivered audibly to a person, and so you need to know how to make sure that the right information is there for the screen reader to be able to read that out to a person. [Presenter begins to type data into the document and the Narrator reads each letter types out loud - “H-E-L-L-O”] So in this case set to echo my keystrokes, but I can turn that off. I it’s can have it read text back by line, by paragraphs, or to read an entire document.
So if I open the Start Menu. [Presenter clicks on Start] [Narrator is speaking as the Presenter moves the mouse around the screen] So the Narrator is reading everything to me that I would normally be able to see. When I open the Start menu I can see that it said my focus, where the cursor is at, was in the Search box, and there’s a number of items that are in the Search Result pane, which are my default applications. I have it set to a default speed; a person who uses a screen reader with any regularity is going to have that much quicker, because they’re actually going to be listening more for specific cues, in the same way the sort of visually we’ll not look at everything on the screen, but we’re looking for cues about what we want. So that’s an idea of how the screen reader would work. If I then went to... [Narrator program speaking] So any time I move or I change something, it’s telling me audibly where I’m at so I know the context of what I’m doing. And let’s get to what we were talking about with the document, is understanding that things that we would see are going to be delivered audibly to a person, and so you need to know how to make sure that the right information is there for the screen reader to be able to read that out to a person. [Presenter begins to type data into the document and the Narrator reads each letter types out loud - “H-E-L-L-O”] So in this case it’s set to echo my keystrokes, but I can turn that off. I can have it read text back by line, by paragraphs, or to read an entire document.
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