Deque Systems Launches Tool to Make Social Media Sites More Accessible to the Blind

Navigating the Web is a completely different experience when you can't see the screen. Accessibility software company Deque Systems has announced the launch of Amaze: a new tool that fixes the tiny glitches that other systems might have missed when making sites readable for the visually impaired.

Navigating the Web is a completely different experience when you can’t see the screen. Accessibility software company Deque Systems has announced the launch of Amaze: a new tool that fixes the tiny glitches that other systems might have missed when making sites readable for the visually impaired.

Normally, “Web users who are blind use a software tool called a screen reader to help them navigate the Web. Screen readers literally read out loud the contents of a page,” explained Tyler Steben, Deque Systems’ vice president of product marketing, via email.

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