A screen reader is software that reads out what is on a display. Use a screen reader.
Experienced users run it at speeds nobody else can follow at all. A screen reader depends on the page being built properly, which is why headings and labels matter.
1nounscreen readerSoftware that reads out what is on a display.
“The screen reader announced every button as unlabelled.”
screen reader is software.
Screen plus reader. The first ones were built in the 1980s, and they are the reason alt text and heading structure exist in web standards at all.
From screen + reader.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Disability & Access