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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jul 17, 2020 5:29PM

> Is there a way for a native screen reader user to emulate the experience of a keyboard only user that doesn't use assistive technology?

You can use the pass through keystroke in your screen reader to send the key through and then continue from there. However, if the only change is visual scrolling then when you continue navigation with the browse cursor you will not likely notice any difference as home/end will only scroll the screen visually and make no impact to screen reader users. If you are using JAWS you would be able to turn on the JAWS cursor to read the text on-screen to see if it's changed as this will reflect what is visible on the screen and not in the virtual buffer.

Jonathan