The browser’s Accessibility API exposes public properties and methods that can be queried by third party applications, like screen readers, to retrieve information from the Document Object Model (DOM) within the browser, which is then conveyed to screen reader users. This includes Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari in the Mac and iOS platforms. Here is the reason why.Īll browsers that support accessibility, include an Accessibility API that is built into the browser application. The second most widely used screen reader, NVDA, is hard coded to work best in Firefox.
The differing behaviors of screen readers across various browsers are noticed all the time by screen reader users, and differing levels of ARIA support are noticed in a similar manner, but the reasons why this happens aren’t commonly understood by the majority of people.įor example, the most widely used screen reader, JAWS, is hard coded to work best in Internet Explorer.
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