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by adhesive_wombat 1555 days ago
This is something that frustrates me: it's actually really hard to design for screenreaders because it's hard to actually check the results in a free/volunteer context. So you often just have to just hope you're being "semantic" enough.

And I did try to use Orca but I just could not get it to work, the TTS service was sulkily disinclined to accept any requests.

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Nowadays it's really easy to check on mac + windows, as the built in stuff is "good enough", particularly if you use the OSes default browser (Safari and edge respectively).

I realise that doesn't help Linux/BSD users.

Try IBM's Equal Access Checker browser extension

https://github.com/IBMa/equal-access

Firefox's Accessibility tree inspector is nice.