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by vagab0nd 1995 days ago
Is there some software library that turns websites into text, that these screen readers all use, or do they implement their own?
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> Is there some software library that turns websites into text, that these screen readers all use, or do they implement their own?

They implement their own. But the browser also has responsibilities in this area, to construct an accessibility tree from the DOM which screen readers can parse.