Accessibility evaluation of websites using screen reader

The World Wide Web is used by a variety of users to look for resources and gather information. Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the web. People with visual disabilities have low vision or blindness for which the mouse and the monitor would be less useful. The level of accessibility in AJAX and JAWS screen reader has been evaluated in this paper. Websites were picked up randomly for the purpose of analysis and the result is documented. This paper gives some suggestions on how to improve the accessibility in Rich Internet Applications for visually disabled. With lot of technological enhancements in creating very Rich Internet Applications, the challenges to keep the web content completely accessible to the visually disabled users is also increasing.