Can't afford JAWS? Then get Fangs.

MikeHopley · Nov 24th, 2007, 11:31

Fangs is a Firefox add-on that "creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader".

This is useful for two reasons:

It's free, whereas JAWS is not.
It shows you a block of text, rather than actually reading the text aloud. Most of us will find this more efficient.

Be sure to read the Fangs FAQ if you get a blank page (I thought it was broken, but it's easily fixed).

Stuart · Nov 26th, 2007, 00:25

Thanks for the tip! I installed it and it worked for me without configuring... Now I can see what sort of crap screen readers see!

welshstew · Nov 26th, 2007, 07:48

Excellent tool, thanks Mike.