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In the WeedsIn the Weeds: How to Rehearse a Screen Reader Read-Through Without Installing JAWS
A walkthrough of using AI to simulate a screen reader read-through, the limits of that simulation, and when you need real assistive tech testing.
It's 9:12 on a Tuesday morning, and I have been listening to my own homepage for an hour. Not reading it. Listening. A voice that sounds like a mid-1990s GPS is telling me, "link, link, link, button, heading level two, link, main, navigation, link, link." Somewhere in there is th…
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