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2 unusual facts about Screen reader


Screen reader

These involve the provision of alternative and accessible representations of what is being displayed on the screen accessed through an API.

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This approach is considerably easier for screen readers, but fails when applications do not comply with the accessibility API: for example, Microsoft Word does not comply with the MSAA API, so screen readers must still maintain an off-screen model for Word or find another way to access its contents.



see also

PDF/UA

In 2012 and 2013 the PDF Association helped raise money and awareness for NV Access's NVDA to further development of the world's first PDF/UA conforming screen reader.