Paul Anilprem wrote:I know there are some s/w that "speak" whatever is there on the page but I felt they are practically useless.
Have you ever watched an expert blind user using a screenreader? I have once, and it was astonishing - I'd seen people using them for
testing plenty of times (and had played with one myself), but this was the first time I'd watched someone who clearly used them all the time. The first thing you noticed was the speed he had it tuned to. I couldn't even understand the voice, it was so fast. He had no trouble. He was also completely fluent in a large number of keyboard shortcuts. I've seen plenty of sighted people who are less productive with a computer.
However, all this is dependent on software and websites being written in a way that supports this (or at least doesn't actively get in the way), which is where the legal requirements come in. The UK has similar laws to the ones Jeanne mentions in the US.