SESeirdy·Dec 13, 2020
Oh, hello there again! It's always good to see people testing their site on non-mainstream user-agents.
Some other terminal user-agents to try:
rdrview, go-readability: these are CLI utilities that use Mozilla's Readability algorithm to send HTML of just the article to stdout. Pipe that into w3m/lynx/links to read articles in the terminal. Testing in these ensures that your website will work in Firefox's Reader Mode. I also like to diff my website's HTML against the HTML output of these tools, just to see how much extraneous HTML I have.
Mozilla's Readability is written in JS; these tools are written in C and Go, respectively. With the exception of a few whitespace characters, their output of both seems to be identical.
=> https://github.com/eafer/rdrview rdrview
=> https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability go-readability
Edbrowse is a
Read the rest
line-mode browser that supports JavaScript via Duktape. Originally written for blind users, it's great for sighted users as well.
=> https://edbrowse.org/ edbrowse
If you want to go the extra mile and ensure that your website works with the most basic HTML parsers, try sending it through an HTML-to-Markdown converter that doesn't include inline html in the Markdown output. I test with pandoc's strict markdown output and make sure the resulting markdown is readable:
pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict https://example.com
None of this is a replacement for real a11y testing; most a11y technology leverages mainstream browsers (Chromium, FF, Safari, et cetera).