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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Sep 27, 2019 8:29AM

NEVER use Read Out Loud to do testing for accessibility...or at all!

The best approach is to walk down the Tags Tree to perform three parts of a
quality assurance process:

1. Is everything in the document that needs a tag have a tag?
2. Are the tags correct for the type of content (headings, lists,
paragraphs, tables and so forth).
3. Are the Tags in a logical reading order for the content/type of document.

Additionally, if the document was scanned and needed OCR, you want to use a
screen reader like JAWS or NVDA to make sure that there are spaces between
words and that words don't have spaces between characters.

Cheers, Karen