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
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
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
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
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
Install the free screen reader simulator
