UIO+ testing with clients in VTS

Users compared UIO+ (v0.1.0 beta 12) with built-in accessibility features in windows, browsers and Zoomtext. Contrast and text to speech features were primarily used. UIO+ offers some distinct advantages to built-in browser features mainly being able to modify and use features in all webpages and not just reader view compatible webpages. Right click text to speech feature was handy for reading directly in the webpage. Contrast issues experienced in UIO+ were similar to Windows contrast options. Compared to zoomtext, zoomtext offers more consistency in feature function (i.e. contrast and speech) but this program is over $600. Additional keyboard commands would be very useful for navigating and controlling the features. Clients were able to test extension with various websites and feedback is attached. This extension will be shared with other users and stakeholders as an alternative to similar accessibility options.    

Highlights
Contrast works on many webpages, not just article page
Read feature is very useful

Comparisons
For zoom feature, windows CTRL +/- maybe easier
ZoomText provides more comprehensive and consistent options but costly
Read mode not needed with TTS feature

Issues/suggestions 
Gears icon on tool bar is small, corrected with context menu in updated version (See: GPII-4240)
Function Key to open UIO+ (See: GPII-4241) 
Need keyboard shortcuts to menus (See: GPII-4241) 
Need to save settings after closing chrome (See: GPII-4242)
Quick way of cycling through contrasts 

(See: FLUID-6432 for contrast application issues)