Site Unseen

A screen reader emulator that helps you appreciate how blind people use the web

What is Site Unseen?

Site Unseen is a Chrome extension that helps users understand how blind people interact with web pages. It provides a screen reader emulator, obscures page content, and tests for web accessibility issues.

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By: Pedal Point Enterprises

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 443 ▲ 12

Rating: 4.25 (4)

Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2024-07-31)

Creation date: 2022-05-19

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
scripting

Size: 264.19K

Email: in*****@siteunseen.dev

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 42998 ▲ 170

Other rankings

#750 in Accessibility #20 in site keyword 70 #108 in point keyword 21 ▼ 18 #288 in web page keyword 58 ▼ 9

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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People who are blind browse the web very differently than sighted users. Site Unseen helps you appreciate how blind users interact with web pages by obscuring the page and providing a screen reader emulator to explore its content. Use this browser extension to foster empathy in yourself and your community for those with vision disabilities, build the case for accessible web design, and test for web accessibility issues.

Features:

Turn Site Unseen on and off by pressing its logo in the browser toolbar.
Visually obscures page content and displays the role, name, value, and state of the current element in a caption.
Use the Tab, Enter, Spacebar, arrow keys, swipe gestures, and double taps to move to and interact with page elements.
Use keyboard shortcuts to jump to headings, links, lists, form fields, buttons, images, and landmarks on the page.
List all keyboard commands with the "Help" feature.
Temporarily reveal the page content visually with the "Peek" feature.

User reviews

Blind people use screen readers. Nothing is being read out loud here. This is just a link traverser. Not useful for actual ARIA development imo.

Rafael Cieslik, 2024-08-01

Fantastic way to experience a website using assistive technology. Great for anyone who does web design and wants to test the accessibility of their site. Essentially simulates how a person with no vision might experience a site with a screen reader.

Jeffrey Rodgers, 2022-05-19

While installing this extension getting a warning message "This extension is not trusted by enhanced safe browsing". Though this is not an issue and it is due to the user's default "Enhanced Safe Browsing" setting in Chrome. Reference: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/this-extension-is-not-trusted-by-enhanced-safe-browsing-how-to-remove-this-c2950c5c6e. I just put this for everyone's notice to clarify. Once again much appreciated the developer and his efforts towards the vision that equality in digital.