Live Webinar: An Introduction to Screen Readers

Created by: ljgoslin

Join our live webinar on Thursday, May 17th from 1:00-2:00PM EST In this webinar, Steve Sawczyn, Solutions Architect at Deque Systems, will demonstrate how he uses a screen reader to navigate the web. In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), this fundamentals-based webinar will provide developers, designers, business users or anyone new to digital accessibility a first-hand experience of how people who are visually impaired navigate the web. In this webinar you will:

• Experience a screen reader simulation first-hand
• Understand how a screen reader navigates a web page
• Hear how a screen reader announces the content on a page
• Discover common design barriers that trap or make the web inaccessible to persons using assistive technologies
• Learn an introduction to accessibility testing with screen readers