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Free Chrome extension

Make AI chatbots work with your screen reader.

ListenLM is a free Chrome extension that helps VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and Orca read Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini outputs clearly, instead of reading out raw punctuation and broken formatting.

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Works with

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Copilot

AI chatbots were not designed for what you can hear

They were built to be seen, not heard. When a reply streams in, your screen reader has to guess at structure that was never marked up, so you hear raw punctuation instead of code, headings, and links.

Demo

Press play on either side to hear exactly what a screen reader says.

Code block

Without ListenLM

“Backtick backtick backtick python, def total open paren cart close paren colon, return sum open paren cart close paren, backtick backtick backtick.”

With ListenLM

“Python code block. def total(cart): return sum(cart). End of code block.”

Heading

Without ListenLM

“Hash hash Setup.”

With ListenLM

“Heading, level 2: Setup.”

Link

Without ListenLM

“Bracket the docs bracket, open paren h t t p s colon slash slash example dot com slash docs close paren.”

With ListenLM

“Link: the docs.”

Table

Without ListenLM

“Pipe Plan pipe Price pipe, dash dash dash pipe dash dash dash, pipe Pro pipe twenty dollars pipe.”

With ListenLM

“Table, 1 row, 2 columns. Column 1: Plan. Column 2: Price. Row 1: Pro, twenty dollars.”

How it works

  • It spots each new reply

    As soon as a chatbot answers, ListenLM sees the new text arrive.

  • It labels the parts that matter

    Code, headings, links, and tables get proper labels, so your screen reader announces each one the right way.

  • It signals when the reply is done

    You get one clear cue that the answer finished, instead of being cut off as it streams in.

Built for organizations that recommend assistive technology

ListenLM works within the screen reader your members already use and requires no setup. Recommend it once, and it starts working the moment they open a chatbot.

Free, with no accounts

No sign-up, no license keys, and no cost. A member installs it once and it works.

Works on the device

It restructures the page already open in the browser and sends nothing to any server.

No new workflow to learn

It runs alongside VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, and Orca. Every shortcut a member already uses keeps working.

Want a live demo or a walkthrough for your team? We will set one up, free of charge.

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Why this is needed

Screen reader users rely on AI chatbots just like everyone else, but these tools are rarely tested with a screen reader in mind. The WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey shows how common these barriers are, and the research paper “Screen Reader Programmers in the Vibe Coding Era” (arXiv 2506.13270) documents how AI tools break for screen reader users by default.

Even the teams behind these tools have open, unresolved requests for better screen reader support. ListenLM closes that gap now, so no one has to wait for each tool to fix itself.

Get ListenLM

ListenLM is a free Chrome extension. Add it to Chrome and it starts working the moment you open Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot.

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