Overview of Screen Readers Across Operating Systems

Overview of Screen Readers Across Operating Systems

Artem Alekseev Artem Alekseev

Artem Alekseev

Product Designer | 6+ Years of Experience | Certified Accessibility Tester

发布日期: 2024年9月16日
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Windows

NVDA and JAWS are screen readers of choice for many on Windows. the usage of both is nearly the same. NVDA is free and open-source, and JAWS on the other hand is proprietary.

Narrator - is a default screen reader built-in Windows from version 10, which is not as popular as NVDA or JAWS (a recent study by WebAIM shows it has only 0.7% of all their respondents)

MacOS / iOS

VoiceOver is a default screen reader on Apple devices (macOS, iOS). iPhone's VoiceOver supports different inputs as well as on-screen braille.

Android

TalkBack is a default screen reader on Android. It supports different input methods, as well as on-screen braille.

Linux

Even so, the NVDA screen reader is free and open-source, it’s not multiplatform, so for desktop Linux users, the only available are:

  • Orca — a GUI screen reader
  • Emacspeak — screen reader (as you can guess) for Emacs editor.
  • Fenrir — An screenreader for terminal.

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