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
Here are a set of tools and resources for designers to inculcate accessibility into their designs, often organizations talk about shift left approach when they talk about accessibility, and we believe these accessibility tools will make it easy and reduce the number of accessibility defects during the development phase. As an accessibility specialist I often…
A bookmarklet is a link that contains Javascript that you can run on any web page. It is a bookmark that runs javascript on the current page instead of taking you to a new page. Bookmarklets help web developers and designers see the entire perspective on website, it helps view hidden accessibility information in web…
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…
Apart from web content, PDF documents create significant barriers to accessing information. For a long time, PDF remediation services worldwide have been manually handled by many accessibility vendors. However, the scale of PDF documents being created surpasses the capacity of manual remediation, causing inefficiencies. The industry is innovating to address this challenge by automating aspects…
When it comes to accessibility testing, deploying automated accessibility testing tools is the first step any business takes into consideration. Automated testing is quicker and provides a holistic overview of the website’s health in terms of accessibility efforts. What is web accessibility monitoring? The process of crawling a website with hundreds or thousands of pages…
