Updates on Google Chrome OS and screen reader support

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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 14:16pm

The Google Chrome blog has reported improved third-party screen reader support in the latest version of the Google Chrome operating system (beta), and according to a tweet by a Google research scientist, developers may soon have access to Google Chrome’s screen reader, ChromeVox.

The Google Chrome blog post lists a number of changes to the latest version of Google Chrome operating system (Beta), including preliminary support for popular screen readers JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.

In January this year, Media Access Australia reported that the next version of the Google Chrome operating system would include the standalone screen reader extension ChromeVox. According to a recent tweet by T.V. Raman (research scientist at Google) who is tweeting live from Google’s developer conference, Google I/O, developers will have early access to ChromeVox. There is no further information as yet.


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