Re: What's AT What's a screen reader

• From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:34:03 +0100 (BST)
• To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200504042034.j34KY3i01683@djwhome.demon.co.uk>

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> David Woolley said:
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> > (Tools like JAWS are AT, not screen readers.)
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> I just couldn't leave it alone. What possesed you to day this? 

s/day/say/

To me a screen reader reads out exactly the displayed text.  It is a
form of assistive technology, but tools like JAWS look at the underlying
document model and render from that.

A screen reader can only honour the visual media type.  More general
AT need not, but probably will, be limited to the visual media type.

Received on Monday, 4 April 2005 20:41:16 UTC