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Re: Screen reader accessible automated accessibilitytesting tools

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jul 2, 2024 11:30AM

Thanks, Birkir,

Once you have found an issue with Axe, presumably you want to see that part of the code in the DOM Inspector. There is a link to do that, but how do you work out what part of the code you are in if you are working on a website you are not familiar with? It's easy for sighted people to quickly look at the previous and subsequent elements, but I imagine that must be more difficult for screen reader users, especially when each element has lots of attributes that may or may not be relevant and your element is nested inside a dozen or more div elements that don't do anything. Do you need Braille for that too? On badly coded websites it can take me a long time to work out what a line of code is doing, so I imagine it is even more difficult if you can't see it.

Steve