Accessibility Tools

  • WAVE toolbar
    • https://wave.webaim.org/extension
    • The WAVE Chrome and Firefox extensions allows you to evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within your web browser
  • Accessibility Insights
    • https://accessibilityinsights.io
    • New free web-based tool from Microsoft partnering with accessibility veterans Deque Systems
    • It is very interactive but the reports are also very easy to understand, browse, print, and share
    • Problems are indicated graphically on the page with offending code snippets, links to the relevant guidelines, and possible solutions provided
    • The interactive tab stops testing feature is pretty useful to see how keyboard users would navigate your site
  • Colorblind Web Page Filter
  • Color Oracle
    • https://colororacle.org/usage.html
    • A system color picker that shows you how your color palette choices would look with various types of color blindness, directly in Photoshop
  • Contrast Grid