[Athen] Video showing screen reader and common page errors?

[Steve Green via athen-list]

Bear in mind that there are currently no rules for how screen readers must pronounce things like concatenated words, unknown words, capitalised words, abbreviations, acronyms, emojis and ASCII art.

Each synthesizer uses its own rules and heuristics to decide how to pronounce the text. This means that different screen readers might pronounce the text differently, but so will the same screen reader with different synthesizers. You can’t test with one screen reader and make any assumptions about how others will behave.

The advice is therefore to keep things simple, which mostly means avoiding all these things wherever possible. In my experience, CamelCase is fairly reliable if you really must use concatenated words, but the others are a bit of a lottery.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Subject: Re: [Athen] Video showing screen reader and common page errors?

Hello Eric,

Here’s a few that I have bookmarked:

Relevant accessibility issues:
All Cap content: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xoqW4HwEMSQ
CamelCase: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/18Y2mEO-7bg
Emojis: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkGMKrUS9uo

Resolved accessibility issues (less likely to experience, but may still be relevant on some platforms):
Decorative text: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rKnBxywnJA
Emoticons: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZauXCmAeCD0

Best,


Joshua Hori

Accessible Technology Coordinator

Information Educational Technology

Academic Technology Services

50 Hutchison Dr.

Davis, CA 95616

530-752-2439

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Subject: [Athen] Video showing screen reader and common page errors?
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving break!

Does anyone have any videos showing common errors encountered by screen reader users?  Bad link text, bad / missing image alt text, weird emojis etc. Our Faculty have asked for examples of what happens when they format things wrong, so figured I’d ask here before figuring out how to screen record with a screen reader.

Anyone have any tips for screen recording with a screen reader? I haven’t looked into the best way to do it, so just looking for anything that might be a snag.

Thanks,

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