A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen or more accurately sent to standard output whether a video monitor is present or not.

What is screen reader text. This tool can read web pages text documents and other files. In more accurate terms content displayed in screen is sent to standard output whether a video monitor is present or not. For some people though they can see well they find it difficult to read.

The screen reader software and a. Like its predecessors Windows 10 includes a screen reader feature called Narrator. Screen readers are a form of assistive technology AT.

It is also helpful for people learning English or another language and for the elderly. In fact it reads the content on the screen aloud. The technology helps people who are blind or who have low vision to use information technology with the same level of independence and privacy as anyone else.

Now if these users use a screen reader they can. That being said screen reader only text is great for providing more context to a link whose purpose may be obvious visually due to its location on screen but could be confusing without visual cues for instance. See example below for what a screen reader experiences when no ALT Text is used.

Using the Selection Pane in Word you can display all the images shapes and text boxes within the document as a list. One common way people define information specifically for screen readers is to wrap the descriptive text in an element with a particular class such as screen-reader-text and hide the element using a method that keeps it visible to screen readers. Use Word for Mac with your keyboard and VoiceOver the built-in macOS screen reader to select and read images shapes and text boxes in Word documents.

For skip links to ensure keyboard navigation visibility when the link gets focus. They empower users to hear content and navigate with the keyboard. Supports MSAA Java Access Bridge OpenOffice per line reading from Win32 classes EditNotepad and RichEditWordpad MS Word.