screen-reader-testing

A testing guide for checking web applications with screen readers such as VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS, which read interfaces aloud or through refreshable displays.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for validating screen-reader compatibility, debugging accessibility issues, testing forms and announcements, and checking accessible navigation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal navigation, form, ARIA, and dynamic-content problems that users of screen readers may encounter.

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/wshobson/agents/screen-reader-testing
Any agent
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill screen-reader-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/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 2,897 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.02897
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01448
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00290

Measured 2d ago against content hash 591c7ff80f40, 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 2d ago.

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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/accessibility-compliance/skills/screen-reader-testing/SKILL.md · 539 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 539 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 · 539 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. 2d ago First seen · 539 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 591c7ff80f40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screen-reader-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,318 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,897 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.