Blindness
1. Reading Aloud & Highlighting
- Read entire text aloud - B, LV, CLL, D/HOH
- Allow the user to correct text-to-speech mispronunciations and/or retrieve pronunciation corrections from a central source - B, LV, CLL
- Use vocal characteristics to present visual formats - B, LV, CLL
2. Reorganizing, Simplifying, & Translating
2.1 Reorganizations
- Reformat web page display with a balanced depth & breadth of menus - B, CLL, PHY
- Create skip links ("skip to main content", etc) - B, PHY
- Group links according to context - B, CLL, PHY
- Create consistency (of controls, navigation, layout, labels, and icons) among web pages, while maintaining distinguishable appearances of pages - B, LV, CLL
2.2 Other Transformations
- Transform content to conform to accessibility standards - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
- Translate and format text for Braille display - B
2.3 Graphic Translations
2.4 Adjust/remove time limits on reading, listening, or acting
- Provide ability to pause, rewind, and replay multimedia - B, CLL
- Provide ability to extend or remove time limits on reading - B, LV, CLL, PHY
- Provide ability to extend or remove time limits on completing an action (filling in a form, etc) - B, LV,CLL, PHY
3. Supplementing Page Content
Most of the following can be done either by an automated tool or by collaborative/third party markup:
3.1 Page & Site Level Enhancements
- Support collaborative third party markup (customized accessibility scripts for web pages that are designed by and shared among users) - B, LV, PHY, CLL, D/HOH
- Provide descriptions of links - B, CLL
- Generate site maps - B, CLL
- Display breadcrumbs - list of previously visited pages and path to current page - B, CLL
3.3 Image Description
- Generate or retrieve text descriptions/tags for poorly labeled images - B, LV
- Sonify videos or images to provide "synthetic vision" using audio - B
4. Adjustable or Alternate Input Devices
Automatically adjust or allow the user to adjust input settings..
4.1 Alternate Text Entry Methods
- Keyboard input: Make all functionality available via the keyboard - B, PHY
- Voice input: Make all functionality available via voice control - B, PHY, CLL
5. Facilitating Written Communication
- Read letters and words aloud as they are typed - B, LV, CLL
6. Error Prevention & Recovery
- Help minimize errors - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
- Provide general strategies and contextual aid to safely recover from errors - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
7. Preference & Privacy Features
- Automatically determine and adjust settings - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
- Choose preferred features and adjust settings with a user-friendly feature wizard - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
- Provide settings and options that are easy to try out and modify (because settings may cause confusion) - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
8. Special
8.1 Virtual Worlds & Gaming
- Use sound proximity/doppler to provide an audio interpretation of visual content and actions - B, LV
- Provide audio descriptions of objects in local area (within a selective perception / "virtual horizon") -B, LV, CLL
- Provide the ability to discover relationships between items - B, LV
