Merge pull request #656 from stringyland/introduction-readability

Introduction: readability edits

src/index.html

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ <h1 class="title">Overlay Fact Sheet</h1>
     <h2 id="toc">Table of contents</h2>
     <ol>
       <li>
-        <a href="#introduction-definition-and-history-of-web-accessibility-overlays">
-          Introduction, definition, and history of web accessibility overlays
+        <a href="#what-is-a-web-accessibility-overlay">
+          What is a web accessibility overlay?
         </a>
       </li>
       <li>
@@ -81,32 +81,22 @@ <h2 id="toc">Table of contents</h2>
 </nav>
 <main id="main">
   <div class="container">
-    <h2 id="introduction-definition-and-history-of-web-accessibility-overlays">
-      Introduction, definition, and history of web accessibility overlays
+    <h2 id="what-is-a-web-accessibility-overlay">
+      What is a web accessibility overlay?
     </h2>
     <p class="summary">
-      Overlays are a broad term for technologies aimed at improving the
-      accessibility of a website by applying third-party source code (typically
-      JavaScript) to make improvements to the front-end code of the website.
-    </p>
-    <p>Website add-on products purporting to improve accessibility go back to the
-      late 1990s with products like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_Corporation#ReadSpeaker">Readspeaker</a>
-      and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowseAloud">Browsealoud</a>. Both
-      of which added text-to-speech capabilities to the website(s) on which they
-      were installed.</p>
-    <p>Later, similar products came to market that added additional tools to
-      their software that allow user-based control of things like font-sizes and
-      changes to the web pages colors so that contrast is improved. Products like
-      Userway, EqualWeb, AudioEye, User1st, MaxAccess, FACIL'iti, Purple Lens, and accessiBe fall into this category.
-      These products are sometimes also white labelled under additional names and the above is not an exhaustive list of
-      products with which this Fact Sheet is aimed at.</p>
+      Overlays are a broad term for technologies aim to improve the accessibility of a website. They apply third-party source code (typically JavaScript) to make improvements to the front-end code of the website.</p>
+    <p>Website add-on products claiming to improve accessibility go back to the late 1990s with products like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya_Corporation#ReadSpeaker">Readspeaker</a>
+      and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowseAloud">Browsealoud</a>. They added text-to-speech capabilities to the website(s) on which they were installed.</p>
+    <p>Then similar products came to market that added more tools to their software. These allow user-based control of things like font-sizes and colors to improve readability.</p> 
+		<p>Some newer overlay products aim to fix any problems in the site's code that are preventing assistive technology from being used easily. They apply a script to the page which scans the code and automatically attempts to repair the problem.</p>
+		<p>Products like Userway, EqualWeb, AudioEye, User1st, MaxAccess, FACIL'iti, Purple Lens, and accessiBe are known as accessibility overlays. They are sometimes white labelled (sold under other names), so this is not a complete list of the type of products discussed on this page.</p>
 
     <h2 id="strengths-and-weaknesses-of-overlay-widgets">
       Strengths and weaknesses of overlay “widgets”
     </h2>
     <p class="summary">
-      Overlay widgets are unnecessary and are poorly placed in the
-      technology stack.
+      Overlay widgets are unnecessary and are poorly placed in the technology stack.
     </p>
     <p>As stated above, some overlay products contain widgets which present a
       series of controls that modify the presentation of the page they're on.