Getting Online Screen Reader: Items on a Web Page Basics

Hello, my name is Ricky Enger. And today we'll learn about various items that we're likely to find on a typical webpage. We're using the Chrome web browser along with NVDA as our Screen Reader. But the concepts we learn will be pretty similar, no matter which screen reader and browser we're using. There is so much we can do online, right? Can search for information, we can read the news, shop for products, find books, and that's just scratching the surface. So as we begin doing everything we wanna do online, we're going to find that our web pages contain things other than text. We need to know what those things are and how to work with them.

So a web page is basically made up of various types of building blocks and we call those building blocks elements. Let's start with the element that's probably most familiar to us, a link.

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