googlechromelabs/friendpurr

Friendpurr is a small test website created by Google Chrome Labs. It exists not as a product you'd use, but as a practice ground for people building and testing web accessibility tools, software that helps make websites work better for people with disabilities, like screen readers that read pages aloud. The idea is simple: when engineers build accessibility testing tools or browser automation software, they need safe, predictable websites to try them out on. A real, production website is messy and changes often, making it hard to know whether your tool is working correctly. A dedicated test site gives you a controlled environment where you know exactly what's there, so you can check if your tool reads the page the right way. Who would use this? Developers and testers working on things like automated accessibility checkers, screen reader simulators, or browser extensions that evaluate how usable a page is for people who navigate without a mouse or rely on assistive tech. It gives them a consistent target to practice against, similar to how a driving instructor might use an empty parking lot before sending students onto real roads. The README itself doesn't go into detail about what specific features or accessibility scenarios the site includes, so we can't say exactly what kinds of elements or patterns are set up for testing. Given that it's tagged as a toy project with just a handful of stars and written primarily in HTML, it appears to be a lightweight, intentionally simple resource rather than a comprehensive testing framework. In short, it's a sandbox, not something end users would visit for content, but a behind-the-scenes utility for the people building tools that make the web more accessible to everyone.