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Assistive Technologies

TTS (text-to-speech) browsers that use synthesized speech to read text on Web sites to a user

Text-only browsers that render web sites in a text-only format

Voice-enabled browsers that navigate web sites using speech commands

A specialized keyboard or mouse as well as on screen keyboards

Voice-recognition software

Refreshable Braille devices that transfer text onto a special device

Screen magnification or enhancement software

  

Did you know?

that if you realize that most assistive devices rely on text, you'll have gone a long way towards understanding how to make your pages 508 Accessible?


that accessible sites are compatible with foreign language translators?


that if you create a site that is 508 Accessible it will also be usable by people who surf the web via cell phones and PDA's?



 

 

 


 
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