Accessibility Screen Reader

Hear how a web page reads to a screen reader user, move through it by headings, links and landmarks, and flag accessibility issues.

Accessibility Screen Reader helps you hear, test and read the web more easily. FOR ACCESSIBILITY TESTING • Reads pages aloud the way a screen reader does, including headings, links, images, buttons and form fields • Move around a page with the arrow keys, or jump by headings, links, landmarks, form fields, images, lists and tables • Announces where keyboard focus lands as you Tab through a page • Scan page finds common accessibility issues, grouped by type: missing alt text, unlabelled fields and buttons, vague link text, empty or skipped headings, missing page title or language, low colour contrast and more • Click any issue to jump straight to it on the page • Readability score: Flesch Reading Ease, reading age and long-sentence counts for plain English checks. READING AIDS • Colour overlay: tint the whole page or just the text, in any shade from a colour wheel • Dyslexia-friendly text: an easy-to-read font with extra space between letters, words and lines • Text size boost: make the words bigger without zooming images or the layout • Reading ruler: a highlighted strip that follows your mouse, keyboard or the screen reader • Stop moving content: pauses animations, carousels, GIFs and autoplaying videos • Saved setups: save your favourite combination and switch it on with one click • Dictionary: look up any word, or double-click a word on a page for a quick definition from Wiktionary. The popup itself meets WCAG 2.2 AA, with a choice of voices, speeds and pitch, full keyboard use, and light and dark modes. No account, no tracking, no adverts. Your settings stay in Chrome. A SkullBirdDev extension, created by Lisa Moody.