screen-reader-testing

A guide for testing websites with screen readers such as VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS. Screen readers read page content and controls aloud or through a refreshable display for people who cannot see or easily read the screen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Check screen-reader compatibility, test ARIA labels and interactive controls, verify accessible forms and navigation, and confirm that dynamic updates are announced.
Why use it?
A page can look correct while its headings, forms, buttons, navigation, or changing content remain confusing or unusable with assistive technology. Testing exposes those problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/engineerwithai/engineerwith-agents/screen-reader-testing
Any agent
npx skills add EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents --skill screen-reader-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,952 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00039 $0.02952
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01476
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00295

Measured yesterday against content hash 1205d9d30506, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screen-reader-testing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to screen-reader-testing — 137 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/accessibility-compliance/skills/screen-reader-testing/SKILL.md · 534 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 534 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screen Reader Testing

Practical guide to testing web applications with screen readers for comprehensive accessibility validation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Validating screen reader compatibility
  • Testing ARIA implementations
  • Debugging assistive technology issues
  • Verifying form accessibility
  • Testing dynamic content announcements
  • Ensuring navigation accessibility

Core Concepts

1. Major Screen Readers

Screen Reader Platform Browser Usage
VoiceOver macOS/iOS Safari ~15%
NVDA Windows Firefox/Chrome ~31%
JAWS Windows Chrome/IE ~40%
TalkBack Android Chrome ~10%
Narrator Windows Edge ~4%

2. Testing Priority

Minimum Coverage:
1. NVDA + Firefox (Windows)
2. VoiceOver + Safari (macOS)
3. VoiceOver + Safari (iOS)

Comprehensive Coverage:
+ JAWS + Chrome (Windows)
+ TalkBack + Chrome (Android)
+ Narrator + Edge (Windows)

3. Screen Reader Modes

Mode Purpose When Used
Browse/Virtual Read content Default reading
Focus/Forms Interact with controls Filling forms
Application Custom widgets ARIA applications

VoiceOver (macOS)

Setup

Enable: System Preferences → Accessibility → VoiceOver
Toggle: Cmd + F5
Quick Toggle: Triple-press Touch ID

Essential Commands

Navigation:
VO = Ctrl + Option (VoiceOver modifier)

VO + Right Arrow   Next element
VO + Left Arrow    Previous element
VO + Shift + Down  Enter group
VO + Shift + Up    Exit group

Reading:
VO + A             Read all from cursor
Ctrl               Stop speaking
VO + B             Read current paragraph

Interaction:
VO + Space         Activate element
VO + Shift + M     Open menu
Tab                Next focusable element
Shift + Tab        Previous focusable element

Rotor (VO + U):
Navigate by: Headings, Links, Forms, Landmarks
Left/Right Arrow   Change rotor category
Up/Down Arrow      Navigate within category
Enter              Go to item

Web Specific:
VO + Cmd + H       Next heading
VO + Cmd + J       Next form control
VO + Cmd + L       Next link
VO + Cmd + T       Next table

Read the full file on GitHub · 534 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 534 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1205d9d30506

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-reader-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,952 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to screen-reader-testing, differing in 137 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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