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Re: Browser plugin that shows what a screen reader sees?

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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Jan 19, 2018 7:33AM


There is also the Visual ARIA plugin from Brian which doesn't try to
emulate the screen reader as much as to highlight what the standards say.


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:51 PM Tomlins Diane <
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> There's also an add-on called Claws, (also doesn't work with FF57). Fangs
> hadn't been update in forever, and even FF56 had disabled it as
> incompatible, so I switched to Claws. With Claws, you can change the output
> mode to NVDA, JAWS or Claws itself, which I thought was very handy.
>
> Diane R Tomlins
> HCA IT&S | Digital Media
> Accessibility SME
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> Hi Brandon, you may want to check out Fangs for Firefox. I've included a
> link below. It apparently doesn't work with the latest Firefox (Quantum),
> but it works with Firefox 56. I tested it and enjoy the output.
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> Nick Beranek
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Browser plugin that shows what a screen reader sees?
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> Hello,
>
> Is there a browser plugin that will show what a screen reader sees so a
> non screen reader user can see how the interface looks to a screen reader?
>
> I'm not sure how a plugin like this would work with tables, but it would
> be really great for noticing some of the worst UX mistakes.
>
> Thanks,
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> Brandon Keith Biggs <
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