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I just tried it to understand how some text would be rendered in audio through a screen reader. At a quick text, very useful to understand how text is read.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
Please let me know what you find. I honestly did not try the accessibility checking features, and the comments on the Chrome extension page suggest there might be issues.
I really wanted only to have a way to test how the alt text I am now alway writing for images plays back through a screen reader.
So far, I prefer the WAVE Tool’s immediacy. I can instantly see on the page all the key things I usually check for (such as alt-text, skipped heading levels, table formatting, etc.) and, if there is alt-text, I can actually see what it is without having to click anything else. It’s so helpful for doing a quick pass on a page.
I do like the screenreader feature in Silktide one, though. And it has a colour contrast checker in-built, too. The WAVE Tool doesn’t have either of these. However, WCAG has a separate colour checker plugin that I use which is very easy to quickly identify issues and play with colour adjustments to see what will fix the issue.
So, overall, so far it seems like the WCAG ones are lighter and faster, but the Silktide one is more comprehensive. I’ll keep playing with them and let you know anything else useful I discover
