There's a common misconception that when browsing the web using a screen reader, it's reading the actual screen. This is not really surprising, as the name suggests that's exactly what it's doing. And, this is what early screen readers did, so, we can't really blame anybody for thinking that!

Our users have already chosen how they want their devices to behave; here’s how we can respect those preferences on the web.

In this post, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director Shawn Lawton Henry covers some of the stakes and challenges in developing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 that is under active development.

Accessibilty and user-experience thoughts.

A plea to developers: if this gets created, let's not fuck it up. This is a slightly more spec-heavy post than usual, but hopefully still useful.