[ED-MED ] What does "screen reader" reference in Perception?

[MicheleAWilliams-A11y]

Most of this sounds like a screen reader like JAWS or NVDA until the end of the last sentence:

Screen reader – software that processes content on the desktop and in web browsers, and converts it to others forms such as text-to-speech and Braille. Screen readers typically provide other functions such as shortcut keys, different modes for processing content and interacting with it, and the ability to highlight the text that is being read aloud.

I've never known screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VO to highlight words as it reads. Unless, I'm mistaken, then it makes me think this is calling all TTS systems a screen reader (such as TextHelp's TTS reader) which I don't think is accurate to do.

Also this says it converts to "forms such as text-to-speech and Braille" but I believe those would be the only forms of output from a screen reader, correct? Assuming so, I would make that more clear.

[JayneSchurick]

@MicheleAWilliams-A11y PLEASE APPROVE

I believe JAWS has an option to highlight text but I'm not sure about NVDA an VO. I changed it to:

Some screen readers provide other functions such as shortcut keys, different modes for processing content and interacting with it, and the ability to highlight the text that is being read aloud.

Regarding your second comment, I changed it to:

...converts it to text-to-speech and Braille.

[MicheleAWilliams-A11y]

Sure, reads well - thanks.