encyclo - 1:38 am on Apr 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Using any screenreader technology even for a short while is a revelation - it is a great way of discovering how well a site is structured - and when browsing non-visually, page structure is absolutely vital for best understanding.

Lynx is a great test tool as well, as it strips down the page to the bare essentials. If your page works well in Lynx, then you have gone a long way to making it accessible via a screenreader.

A hint: use VMWare or a similar virtualization program to have multiple instances of you OS available with different configurations. In that way, you can test such software without affecting your main setup.