Screen Readers in Practice: What We Actually Run Into

Checks can miss the issues that matter most: focus traps, confusing Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) labels, and interactions that technically pass but don’t actually make sense to a screen reader user. The gap between “it works” and “it works well” is where most accessibility problems hide.

Too often, screen reader testing is treated as a single pass-fail step rather than an ongoing practice shaped by real-world use. This session brings together two testers with different day-to-day roles to compare what they actually run into, from recurring false positives to the edge cases that never make it into a checklist.

Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 2:00 PM EST as Accessibility UX Testing Coordinator Heather Berg and Kelsie Cleboski, CPWA, Senior Accessibility Specialist, sit down for a discussion-style webinar on screen reader testing.

What we’ll cover

• The most common screen reader testing challenges Heather and Kelsie encounter from their respective roles
• How to spot and avoid false positives in screen reader testing workflows
• Edge cases that don’t show up in a standard checklist, and how to catch them anyway
• Lessons learned from testing across different assistive technology setups

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