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Re: Accessibility Testing Tools that Work on a Screen Reader?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 9, 2016 12:00PM

We've designed the WAVE online tool (http://wave.webaim.org/) to be
highly accessible. The Chrome extension is also quite usable in
Windows screen readers and VoiceOver (a few minor bugs are being
patched now). While the interface has some complexities and requires
some orientation for all users, we believe it is accessible and have
received very positive feedback from screen reader users. And we're
very open to feedback/recommendations and are regularly making
improvements to make it better.

The biggest caveat with the WAVE tool is that because it injects icons
into the original page, it does not somehow make that page content
more accessible. In other words, while significant accessibility
issues on the page will be identified (both in the sidebar and in the
page itself), the in-page errors may still introduce problems for
screen reader users trying to navigate that page.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org