As i lose my sight, I have become dependent on assistive technology to make the web accessible to me. I use screen reader, it reads the text on the screen to me and combined with a keyboard and a whole list of keyboard shortcuts, I can navigate the web without looking at the screen. Well, some of the web.
Most of the web is not fully accessible with a screen reader, many sites have just enough information available to the screen reader to be able to do a small amount of the functionality the site is inntended to provide.
The 19th of May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there has been a massive improvement in the 11 years it has been celebrated, but there is so much more to be done.
Check out this article and the videos of how assistive tech is used to browse the web
Assistive technologies (AT) are software or hardware used by people with disabilities to help them complete a task. While AT can refer to wheelchairs, hearing aids or canes, we look at AT for using a computer and browsing the web, including desktop and mobile screen readers, the keyboard, screen magnification, and speech recognition.
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2021/12/24/browsing-with-assistive-technology-videos/
