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Zoom H1Essential, H4Essential, and H6Essential: Accessible Stand-Alone Audio Recorders
Zoom is well known for the quality of their stand-alone audio recorders. For many years, people who are blind or low vision used these recorders through memorizing controls and menus, but with the most recent releases, Zoom recorders now include accessibility built-in. In this article, Jamie Pauls details the accessibility present on the latest range of devices.
Access Matters
Getting Started with Accessibility as a Developer
In AccessWorld, we generally discuss accessibility from the position of advocates. In this piece, web developer Hannah Thompson discusses the process of receiving feedback on the accessibility of her web application, her experience learning about accessibility on the web, and subsequently implementing access fixes.
Using the NVDA Screen Reader to Test Web Accessibility
The Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader makes for an excellent tool for testing the accessibility of web applications. This piece aims to serve as a clear, concise guide for the developer completely new to screen readers in using NVDA to test their website for accessibility and usability.
Apple's VoiceOver Screen Recognition: Using Machine Learning to Implement Accessibility
Using machine learning, Apple's Screen Recognition feature automatically identifies UI elements and makes them visible to the VoiceOver screen reader on iOS. Considering the recent breakthroughs in machine learning/AI with implications for accessibility, we wanted to spotlight this incredibly useful and groundbreaking technology.
Inclusive Technology Research
Research: Online Job Applications Still Need Improvements
the National Research and Training Center on Blindness
and Low Vision (NRTC) decided to evaluate the current status of the accessibility and
usability of online job applications. The results from this study conducted for the NRTC
by the American Foundation for the Blind in 2021 are presented
here.