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From: William O'Donnell
Date: Sep 27, 2019 2:57PM

Forgot about Read Out Loud, I agree.
Have a good day. Sorry if emails are coming across twice, internet is bad here.


On 9/27/19, Karlen Communications < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>
>