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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2014
Freedom Scientific, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Robert Gallo, Tucker, GA (US);
Glen Gordon, Madison, WI (US);
Freedom Scientific, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Abstract
A screen reader application for visually impaired users suppresses unwanted content that is output by Braille or text-to-speech. The invention accesses, but does not modify, the document object model of the web page and enumerates web page elements for the end user to either hide or skip to. The end user selections are saved as rules which may be applied according to various levels of scope include web page specific, site specific or web-wide. A screen magnification application for visually impaired users automatically sets the visual focus and magnification level on a web page element according to end-user selection.