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Everything about Screen reader

Assistive technology that converts text or images to speech or Braille

A screen reader is a form of assistive technology (AT) that renders text and image content as speech or braille output. Screen readers are essential to blind people, and are also useful to people who are visually impaired, illiterate, learning-disabled, or otherwise have a print disability. Screen readers are software applications that attempt to convey what people with normal eyesight see on a display to their users via non-visual means, like text-to-speech, earcons, or a braille device. They do this by applying a wide variety of techniques that include, for example, interacting with dedicated accessibility APIs, using various operating system features, and employing hooking techniques. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Screen readerA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography in Sweden: a prospective, population-based, paired-reader, non-inferiority studyInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: JourneysThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: What Frustrates Screen Reader Users on the Web: A Study of 100 Blind UsersCited 271 times
  5. Go sideways: JAWS (screen reader)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Computer accessibilityA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A software application that speaks aloud information from a computer display, for users with impaired vision.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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