This is one of the demo videos that Kath Moonan of AbilityNet showed during her presentation. It is a user testing interview of a blind user trying to use YouTube with a screen reader and then try the same task with Easy YouTube.

• Watch the video using Easy YouTube
• Watch the video on YouTube

Artur Ortega and Leonie Watson showed and explained the audience at Scripting Enabled what it means to use a screen reader, what screen readers are out there and how you can help screen reader users by building your JavaScript applications the right way.

Here are Artur’s links:

• A first glance of javascript and a screen-reader:
  • Javascript and JAWS
• Examples how javascript can improve accessibility:
  • Simple, accessible data tables to YUI Charts
  • Youtube captioning
  • Yahoo! Video with off-screen video-controls
• Flash & making Video Accessible
  • Making video accessible
  • nomensa: mechanism for displaying case studies
  • nomensa: Flash game demonstrates how Flash can be accessible to all users.
  • nomensa: JavaScript to dynamically add a style switcher
• The intersection of accessible flash and SEO:
  • Searchability of flash
• Taking Javascript a step further
  • Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA
• Other Web 2.0 Obstacles without javascript:
  • Problems with microformats and abbr
• How non-visible meta data improves usability for users with disabilities
  • Natural language hack for Yahoo! search
• Beyond our horizon - our users:
  • Yahoo’s LIVE Deaf Chat Room! for our deaf users
  • flickr - Blind Photographers
  • flickr - Visually-impaired photographers UK
  • flickr for blind people using the new touchcolor system
  • flickr - Color-Blind Photographers
  • flickr - Seeing Beyond Sight Challenge - this photo challenge was inspired by a new book called, Seeing Beyond Sight: Photographs by Blind Teenagers (Chronicle Books 2007).
• For the end:
  • Example of the (singing) speech synthesizer Alex of the new Mac OsX