Screen reader emulator mac os x

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It's really important to test for accessibility with the keyboard, because that's how your users might need to get around.

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Now I can start tabbing through a page and use the Skip Links, and see where I am on the screen.

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Under Full Keyboard Access, we'll want to change it from Text Boxes and Lists Only to All Controls. We also want to go to System Preferences under Keyboard, and then the Shortcuts panel. That will make it so you can start tabbing through the page. First, in the Safari Preferences, under the Advanced section, there's a checkbox for accessibility to Press Tab to Highlight Each Item on a Web page. There's two things that we need to change. If I go to without changing anything, and I start to tab through the page, you'll see that I don't get a focus outline when I tab through everything, and as a keyboard user, that makes it impossible to use. When you first get a new Mac, to develop and test for accessibility, you might need to turn on a few things.