Automated web accessibility evaluation tools are hard to trust, understand and only provides feedback on a small amount of factors that influence accessibility. Also, a unified web evaluation methodology should be adopted to provide consistent results across tools. Automated tools are available which can identify some of the problems that are present. Depending on the tool the result may vary widely making it difficult. Automated tools can process many pages in a relatively short length of time, but can only identify some of the accessibility problems that might be present
In this post we provided a roundup of accessibility linters available What is a code linter? A code linter is a tool, usually a plugin or extension installed in your text editor, which watches and reports bugs in your code in real-time. Linters are available for a wide variety of editors, supporting any programming language….
If you are in the process of building accessibility statement for your digital applications, then these accessibility statement generating tools might come in handy. It is not difficult to build an accessibility statement if you are some one who is working in the digital accessibility space for a while. But if you are a small…
Some resources to help you get started with PDF Accessibility. Please use the comments to alert us to any resources that need adding to the list. PDF Accessibility Resources The Matterhorn Protocol 1.02To promote adoption of PDF/UA by software developers and document testers alike, the PDF Association’s PDF/UA Competence Center developed the Matterhorn Protocol, a…
Enterprise accessibility tools A curated list of Enterprise accessibility tools that will enable automation of web accessibility testing across the website, generate reports , create visual dashboards & help in optimizing overall accessibility progress across the organization. Accessibility Scanner:Scan and monitor your website for ADA and WCAG 2.1 compliance to identify and fix accessibility violations….
It is a sunny day. The sun is so dazzling in your eyes as you are walking in to your office from lunch. You want to finish up an email so quickly but your eyes are not so obedient to look at the computer screen as it has just entered a contrastive suddenness and they…
One of the difficult tasks of an accessibility consultant is to run automation testing on mobile web as the screen size is small & browsers doesn’t support the installation of regular plug-ins; we need to depend on Bookmarklets or connect the device to a MAC or a Desktop machine & conduct the testing using alternative…
