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From: Ajeesh Thomas
Date: Sun, Dec 22 2019 2:45AM
Subject: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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Hi Accessibility Experts,
I am a Screen reader Tester – Could you please suggest - few
Accessibility Verification Tools or Plugins – which helps our
Manual Screen reader Testing process ,
I look for the Verification Apps which is Screen reader accessible.
Besides, Do we have any Accessible Option/ Plug in to edit the
code and verify the results instantly?


Please share your knowledge in this regards.



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From: Ajeesh Thomas
Date: Sun, Dec 22 2019 4:04AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools :
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Hi Accessibility Experts,
I am a Screen reader Tester – Could you please suggest - few
Accessibility Verification Tools or Plugins – which helps our
Manual Screen reader Testing process .
I look for the Verification Apps which is Screen reader accessible.
Besides, Do we have any Accessible Option/ Plug in to edit the
code and verify the results instantly?

Please share your knowledge in this regards.

--
With Warm Regards "
Ajeesh Chacko Thomas,
Mob: +91 81233 81222, 8722022121,
Lan: 04742586821,
skipe: ajeeshthomas86

"I have promises to Keep,
And, miles to go before I sleep. "

From: Maxability A11Y
Date: Sun, Dec 22 2019 11:43PM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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Hi Ajeesh,
Most of the audit tools these days are accessible. aXe by Deque both Chrome
and Firefox plugins are accessible with screen reader. Web AIM's wave
http://wave.webaim.org is also screen reader friendly. The PTGs Chrome
extension for accessibility audit is also accessibility friendly.
Firebug add on for firefox was helpful to debug and see the results
instantly in the past, not sure if it is still available on Mozilla Addons
page.

Let me know if you need any further information.

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 3:16 PM Ajeesh Thomas < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
wrote:

> Hi Accessibility Experts,
> I am a Screen reader Tester – Could you please suggest - few
> Accessibility Verification Tools or Plugins – which helps our
> Manual Screen reader Testing process ,
> I look for the Verification Apps which is Screen reader accessible.
> Besides, Do we have any Accessible Option/ Plug in to edit the
> code and verify the results instantly?
>
>
> Please share your knowledge in this regards.
>
>
>
> --
> With Warm Regards "
> Ajeesh Chacko Thomas,
>
> Mob: +91 81233 81222, 8722022121,
> Lan: 04742586821,
> skipe: ajeeshthomas86
>
> "I have promises to Keep,
> And, miles to go before I sleep. "
> > > > >

From: glen walker
Date: Mon, Dec 23 2019 12:59AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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There's also a huge list of tools on the W3.org website -
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/

From: Marissa Sapega
Date: Mon, Dec 23 2019 7:02AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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The Paciello Group offers a free Chrome extension, ARC Toolkit, which is great for manual reviews: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-toolkit/chdkkkccnlfncngelccgbgfmjebmkmce?hl=en

Thank you,

Marissa

On 12/23/19, 3:00 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of glen walker" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = on behalf of = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

There's also a huge list of tools on the W3.org website -
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mon, Dec 23 2019 7:18AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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Despite what we want to think, is there's sadly no guarantee that an
accessibility tool is accessible.
Even when they are they typically never come with documentation for a
screen reader user and they sometimes depend on accessible
environments like the browser developer tools.
For instance, to run the Axe plug-in for Chrome you have to jump
through a few hoops:
1. Open the Chrome dev tools (ctrl-shift-i)
2. From the top of the screen, arrow down to the tabs at the top
(html, CSS, etc.)
3. Try to activate the Axe tab, pressing ctrl-] and arrow back until
you find the Axe tab (Chrome dev tools have a series of keyboard
accessibility issues, including not being able to use arrow keys to
navigate between tabs), if Axe is a new addition ctrl-[[ will open the
most recent one, so that could be a shortcut.

4. Look for the "Analyze" button once the Axe tab is activated

Wave has a keyboard shortcut so it can be run directly from the
webpage in the browser, but I've had some issues switching between the
Wave tabs, though their overlay approach is easy and intuitive to
understand for a screen reader user (good job, Wave!).

Firebug is dead, I think, but Firefox dev tools work more or less like
Firebug did with a screen reader so my instructions on
http://www.bats.fyi are mostly relevant still.
Master Marco Zehe also has excellent instrructions, though I admit to
being too lazy to Google them right now.

Chrome dev tools are decent but not fully accessible and require
workarounds, I need to do a write up on how to use them but it starts
with shift-f10 and selecting "inspect element" to get to the current
element in the DOM tree, then use the context menu for things like
copy HTML, cut/paste node, add attribute etc.
The editor is not accessible at all, you must copy code to an external
edit and then paste the modified HTML back into the DOM.

You would think that accessibility tools are accessible out of the
box, that the website of accessibility vendors come with a perfect, or
near-perfect score with common automated accessibility checking tools.
This is far from a given, sadly.
Some vendors do well, but many vendors don't seem to bother (and
subsequently they don't get any business from me).


On 12/23/19, Marissa Sapega < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> The Paciello Group offers a free Chrome extension, ARC Toolkit, which is
> great for manual reviews:
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-toolkit/chdkkkccnlfncngelccgbgfmjebmkmce?hl=en
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marissa
>
> On 12/23/19, 3:00 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of glen walker"
> < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = on behalf of = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> wrote:
>
> There's also a huge list of tools on the W3.org website -
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/
> > > > >
>
> > > > >


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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Mon, Dec 23 2019 8:05AM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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For browsers like Firefox and Chrome, you will want to use the built-in DevTools rather than something like Firebug. However, as a screen reader user, you will want to invest time in reading the available documentation as well as spend time getting use to how the tools work with a screen reader.

Thanks,
Tim
Tim Harshbarger
Senior Accessibility Consultant
Deque Systems

From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Wed, Jan 01 2020 8:58PM
Subject: Re: Screen reader accessible Web Testing Tools
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Hi, Level Access (the company I work for) also has several free accessible tools that check for automatic accessibility issues. Some can be run command line and integrated with other tools (continuum) while others run in the browser (Access Assistant). They can be found at webaccessibility.com

Jonathan Avila, CPWA