Eclipse accessibility screen reader full#
Eclipse accessibility screen reader code#

If you want to partake in these memes in an accessible way, please take a screenshot and add the relevant live text to the tweet or to the alt text of the screenshot image.

Here is a recording of a screen reader announcing the ASCII (not even the full video). If you like ASCII art but want to be more accessible, take a screenshot, upload it as an image and add alt-text.

You can hear how a screen reader deals with ASCII art in the tweet below. But because it’s made using special characters and spaces, it’s not accessible to screen readers. Text art is often used on Twitter and in online chats. ASCII artĪlso known as ‘text art’, ASCII art uses special characters to form pictures. Whereas most screen readers treat emoticons like normal punctuation. This is because emojis have alt-text that explains what the image is to screen reader users. Whereas others can’t.Įmojis can actually be more accessible than emoticons. The tricky thing about emoticons is that some screen readers can read them.

For example, using a colon “:”, followed by a dash, “-” and a closed bracket “)” to create a smiling face. These are different from ‘emojis’ that use cartoon pictures to convey an emotion or object. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻? /CywCf1b3LmĮmoticons are smiley faces made from standard letters and punctuation symbols. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like Voiceover?” Written in different special character font styles, the text reads: “You think it’s cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. Hear how a screen reader deals with Unicode characters in the tweet below by Ken Dodds. This means that even a short word can take a long time for screen reader users to process. While a sighted user can see a stylised “t”, a screen reader may read out “mathematical sans-serif script t”. This is the case even if you’re using Unicode characters that ‘look’ like standard text. And often left guessing what the intended message was. Screen readers may skip them entirely or read something irrelevant to the user. But they are inaccessible to screen reader users. Yes, Unicode characters might look interesting and stand out visually. For example, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Gmail all support Unicode characters. Unicode characters also include miscellaneous symbols and pictographs. Like astrological, musical, political and religious symbols. Although they’re recognised by most devices, websites, and applications. Unicode characters do not appear on a standard keyboard.

Each character has an individual code that computers use to display a unique symbol. It includes alphabet characters and symbols from every language in the world. Including Greek, Arabic, Thai and Cyrillic. Like the exclamation mark “!”, or ampersand “&”. Standard punctuation marks and symbols on your keyboard are examples of special characters. Special characters represent something other than a letter or number. Or to make their tweets or account handles look different from the standard font. Unfortunately, I can't help if you are using NVDA, but there certainly are solutions as well.It’s quite common to see people using fancy fonts, characters and symbols on social media. They can easily make you enter unwanted extra characters.Īs a blind user I prefer to completely disable all autocompletes like this and only keep it on demand with shortcuts like F2, but that's a personal choice. You will also certainly need to pay triple attention to things that eclipse automatically insert for you as you type, like closing parens and braces, as they aren't announced at all by Jaws when they are automatically inserted. More specifically, in the speech and sound scheme, you might pick a modern scheme different than classic, or want to customize the way the 'invalid' font style is announced. IN case of doubt or if it doesn't work out of the box, you can customize the way Jaws behaves by going to the setting center. At least for me, it worked out of the box from day 1. You have nothing specific to configure for this. Jaws normally says 'invalid' before each invalid part of code in the code editor as you navigate with arrow keys.

Eclipse accessibility screen reader full#

Eclipse accessibility screen reader code#