jargon

Frontend & browser·Accessibility and semantics

you turned one on and heard your interface read out as a flat sequence with no structure at all.

Screen reader

Also calledassistive technology, VoiceOver, NVDA

Software that presents the accessibility tree as speech or braille and provides its own navigation over headings, landmarks and controls. Behaviour varies meaningfully between combinations of reader and browser, so 'works in VoiceOver' is not the same as 'accessible'. Nothing substitutes for listening to your own page once, which is usually a short and educational experience.

Commonly confused with