Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility

Thanks. Very useful.

There's also a free/ open source screen reader for Windows - NVDA.

Thanks a ton, this video helped a ton and helps me feel good that I used a lot of header tags on my site in what I think logic places. I realized how helpful they can be to you, and so I think I will keep even more priority to them since that's how you navigate.

@athenenumphe: I'll check out FANGS seems useful!

Thank you for putting this video up. There's been a lot of debate on what headings should be used in a document and this video definitely helped a lot because the most important use of headings would be for screenreaders.

As a sighted person, I really like using the Firefox Add-on Fangs to see how a screen reader would read a web page.

As a 'sighted' web designer, I've found it's helpful to scan over my designs using Lynx, an old text-based browser. It has some similar features/limitations to screen reader software, and can help you catch many of the more blatant accessibility issues. Highly recommended for all designers and front-end developers.

Thanks so much ! I've been trying to explain some of these concepts to people for a long time. It is such a shame alot of the web is made by cowboys (or cowgirls) and sighted users are normally so disinterested in making things properly because all they SEE is pretty graphics :(

Wow, and I thought I was making the voice very slow for this video. I generally run it at at least twice that rate.

This was a good insight into why developing using standards is important.  Thanks for sharing.

You can set the speech rate and advanced screen reader users tend to have theirs set fast as they become more and more accustomed to it.

Great video! Thank you.
(You can download a demo version of both Jaws and WindowsEyes. They only run for 40 minutes at a time, but the demo doesn't end after a certain number of days.)