WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. No $1000 software program required!

WebAnywhere’s will run on any machine, even heavily locked-down public terminals, regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed.

Please read our WebAnywhere Paper for more information about the system.

You interact with WebAnywhere using the keyboard. A selection of keyboard commands that are currently supported is listed below. Pressing SHIFT in combination with them reverses the direction of the search, searching backward from the current cursor position instead of forward from it.

• CTRL-L – move the cursor to the location box where you can type a URL to visit.
• Arrow Down – read the next element on the page.
• Arrow Up – read the previous element on the page.
• CTRL-H – skip to the next heading.
• CTRL-I – skip to the next input element.
• CTRL-R – skip to the next row by cell when in a table.
• CTRL-D – skip to the next column by cell when in a table.
• Page Down – read continuously from the current position.
• Home – read continuously, starting over from the beginning of the page.
• CTRL – silence WebAnywhere and pause the system.