{"id":14,"date":"2023-04-20T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:39:00","slug":"what-is-assistive-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/what-is-assistive-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Assistive Technology."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hardware and\/or software that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>relies on services provided by a&nbsp;user agent to retrieve and render Web content&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>works with a user agent or web content itself through the use of&nbsp;APIs, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provides services beyond those offered by the user agent to facilitate user interaction with web content by people with disabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This definition may differ from that used in other documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples of assistive technologies that are important in the context of this document include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>screen magnifiers, which are used to enlarge and improve the visual readability of rendered text and images;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>screen readers, which are most-often used to convey information through synthesized speech or a refreshable Braille display;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>text-to-speech software, which is used to convert text into synthetic speech;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>speech recognition software, which is used to allow spoken control and dictation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>alternate input technologies (including head pointers, on-screen keyboards, single switches, and sip\/puff devices), which are used to simulate the keyboard;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>alternate pointing devices, which are used to simulate mouse pointing and clicking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware and\/or software that: This definition may differ from that used in other documents. Examples of assistive technologies that are important in the context of this document include the following:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,11],"tags":[6,10],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-disability","category-inclusive","tag-accessibility","tag-inclusion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a11yeverywhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}