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Re: [EXTERNAL] Google Lighthouse with a screen reader?

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From: KellyFord
Date: May 16, 2018 5:32AM

Hi,

The other tabs have to be scrolled into view. It took me a bit to figure this out because I too kept reading about these other tabs that I was never finding and they were not listed with JAWS VPC or NVDA Browse mode.

I'm not sure what screen reader you are using but try toggling off the web reading mode, tabbing to the list of tabs and then pressing right arrow. You can also try left arrow once focus is on the tab list. In your case, after you reach performance, you should hear that a menu has appeared. That lists the other tabs. Arrow through those and you should get audit.

Another way to reach this is to use what I believe the Google Dev tools call the command menu. In my experience this method works best if you first toggle off the web reading mode of a screen reader before opening the dev tools. Then do this from where you want to run the audit.

1. Press F12 to open the dev tools.
2. Press ctrl+shift+p to bring up the command menu. It isn't really a menu but a list of items you can do in the dev tools. Focus should be in an edit box. It isn't really named correctly and you will probably hear it called something like Panel Show Application because that is the first item after the edit box.
3. Enter audit in the edit box. In my experience entering just aud is enough to limit the list appropriately. You should hear Panel Show Audit.
4. Press enter. The Audit tab should appear with focus on the Run Audit button. Again this part all works best if you have turned off the web reading mode.
5. Just run the audit and don't worry about toggling off certain tests. They don't take that long.
6. Once you have activated the run audit button, turn back on the web reading mode of the screen reader. There will be some status messages as the different tests run and finally the report.

If I can give any other info, please let me know.

Kelly