With the goal of better understanding how people interact with the Web via various types of Assistive Technology (AT) — and what that might mean for developers and designers — Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web. Karo shows you the basic toolkit and then applies those tools to some typical web sites to give you some perspective on how she uses magnification software while she browses the web.

Though screen readers get most of the press, it's good to remember that it's not the only AT game in town.

Related URLs

• YUI Theater — Victor Tsaran: "Introduction to Screen Readers"
• YUI Theater — Doug Geoffray: "From the Mouth of a Screenreader"

Technical Notes

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