Top "Screen-readers" questions

A screen reader is a piece of software that allows people who are blind or have significant vision loss to use a computer.

Can font size be set to 0px to hide labels, and still be readable by screen readers

I need to implement a form with placeholder text and no visible labels, but still have it be accessible to …

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Screen readers and Javascript

I'm creating a website for a reading service for the blind and visually impaired and I'm using JavaScript (with jQuery) …

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Can you force a screen reader to read numbers as individual digits?

Phone numbers are typically all digits, ignoring parens, dashes, pluses, etc., so input fields for phone numbers are typically numeric. …

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How screen readers read elements from HTML

I know that screen readers read for some elements/tags not only what they contain, but also the element/tag …

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NVDA Reading out Text Twice in Chrome

For the following markup: <div class="form-group"> <label class="control-label" for="email">Email Address</label&…

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