YUI Theater — Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Magnifiers”

June 12, 2007 at 6:40 pm by Nate Koechley | In Accessibility, Design, Development, YUI Theater | 4 Comments

With the goal of better understanding how people interact with the Web via various types of Assistive Technology (AT) — and what that might mean for developers and designers — Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web. Karo shows you the basic toolkit and then applies those tools to some typical web sites to give you some perspective on how she uses magnification software while she browses the web.

Though screen readers get most of the press, it’s good to remember that it’s not the only AT game in town.

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Technical Notes

A downloadable and iPod-compatible MPEG version of this video is available for download. The .m4v file format we’ve used for this video (and many others in the YUI Theater) signifies that it is an MPEG-4 file with video; if you’re not downloading to view on an iPod, and/or are using a system that doesn’t recognize the .m4v extension, try renaming the file to .mp4.

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[...] They Yahooo User Interface group has added another video to their accessibility library. This time Karo Caron and Victor Tsaran introduce the screen magnifier. [...]

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[...] their series on accessibility technologies in action, Yahoo’s User Interface Blog has a video demonstrating ZoomText. Most of the issues involve the visual aspects of a web page (as opposed to a screen reader where [...]

Pingback by Technically speaking … » Blog Archive » Screen magnifier demonstration — June 20, 2007 #
The first video doesn’t load for me. Bad link?

Comment by LongOfTooth — May 15, 2008 #
@LongOfTooth — Yes, it looks like there’s a glitch with that video presently. The full URL to view it is here: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/633844 . –Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — May 16, 2008 #

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