Why you need a screen reader simulator
- Experience the web as if you were blind or partially sighted
- Have the text read aloud to you
- Navigate with your keyboard or mouse
- Experience screen reader features like skipping to headings, landmarks, form elements, and more
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What’s included with the Silktide Screen reader simulator?
Our Chrome extension also includes a wide range of helpful web accessibility tools
- WCAG and ADA compliance checker
- Disability simulations
- Color contrast checker
- Keyboard navigation and focus order testing
- HTML, desktop, tablet, and mobile views
- Complete help guides for every issue found
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Check your WCAG and ADA compliance
Understanding web accessibility can be a challenge, and issues can be hard to discover. With Silktide you can:
- Test a live or draft web page to WCAG 2.2
- Find accessibility problems
- Understand how to fix them
![](https://silktide.com/app/uploads/2024/05/WCAG-compliance-Image.png)
Simulate disabilities
Build empathy across your team by getting people to understand the impact of poor accessibility on people.
- Simulate visual impairments like color blindness, loss of color, and reduced vision
- Simulate cognitive impairments, like dyslexia
- Understand how the impact of poor accessibility affects everyone with moderate to severe disabilities
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Check color contrast for better accessibility
Choose two colors on your webpage and check they contrast within WCAG guidelines
- Foreground and background color picker
- Contrast checking against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Pass/fail scoring against WCAG Level A, AA, and AAA, across 20., 2.1 and 2.2
![](https://silktide.com/app/uploads/2024/04/Color-contrast-Image.png)
Install the free screen reader simulator
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