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by Vinnl 1995 days ago
There are a number of browsers that run in Docker and that I can remote control (using Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer or whatever) in my CI systems to run at least some smoke tests, making sure that basic features are available.

Does anyone know if something like that is available for screen readers - at least for a free and open source one?

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> There are a number of browsers that run in Docker and that I can remote control (using Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer or whatever) ... > > Does anyone know if something like that is available for screen readers - at least for a free and open source one?

Nothing in this space is really mature yet, but there are some efforts to make it a reality. The ARIA-AT project[1], which aims to test assistive technology support for various WAI-ARIA and HTML constructs, is aiming to automate its testing across multiple screen readers [2]. NVDA, the free and open source screen reader mentioned in the article, also includes some integration-style tests[3].

[1] https://github.com/w3c/aria-at [2] https://github.com/w3c/aria-at/issues/349 [3] https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/tree/master/tests/system

Great to hear that people are working on this, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing that work mature.