>I had a major eyesight scare this year, and it has gotten me thinking a lot more about accessibility. Thankfully it was just a scare. My family has some eyesi

>I had a major eyesight scare this year, and it has gotten me thinking a lot more about accessibility. Thankfully it was just a scare. My family has some eyesight issues, so I've always been curious on how visually impaired users navigate the web. It helps that in my high school there was a boy that was born blind. He used a braille machine during class, until he got a thinkpad configured with a screen reader. Later he joined a bank working in IT, and I remember he already knew Linux very well during high school (early 00's). >Can anyone point me to the best resources which might help me understand how visually impaired users navigate the internet today? I use the Wave accessibility tool [1] on my websites, and whenever I am reviewing pull requests for $work, or Apache, Jenkins (it&plugins do very poorly), and other Open Source sites (latest one was the CWL Conf 2024 [2]). Another thing I use to test accessibility is try to navigate the site with Orca (with/without looking at the screen). You can install that on any Linux machine, completely free. Microsoft screen reader is better than Orca, or at least was the last time I checked it. But I am a Linux user -- and plan to continue being even if my eyesight gets really bad. It is relatively easy to learn Orca, you just need to learn a few shortcuts, and the commands to enable/disable it. And testing web sites will help you both learn to use the screen reader, while also helping other visually impaired users if you submit bugs/pull requests. Here's a great video that shows what you hear when you open a browser with Orca enabled/running: [3]. If you are running Linux just try typing `orca`, then open a browser, and follow this link: [4]. There you can find most of the necessary key bindings to navigate a website with Orca. Give it a try and experiment how that works. I don't know much about maps, GPT, etc., but I hope Orca and these links will help you to learn more about web accessibility. [1] https://wave.webaim.org/ https://wave.webaim.org/ [2] https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwlcon2024/pull/42 https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwlcon2024/pull/... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI76P-KPZec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI76P-KPZec [4] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/07/02/an-orca-screen-reader-tutorial/ https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/07/02/an-orca-screen-rea...