Web Accessibility Worries? Give Your Development Effort Fangs.
Fangs is a Mozilla Firefox extension that acts as a "screen reader emulator." Without having to spend hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars on popular accessibility software, small design shops and hobbyists can now get some idea of what low-vision visitors will hear when they come to your site.
Fangs (a spoof on JAWS, the name of the leading screen-reader) works by creating “a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader.” Here’s what 8 Ways to Sunday looks like to Fangs: (more…)
