Automated and Artificial Intelligence (AI) checkers can only get you about 30% of the way to digital accessibility compliance. Manual testing is a necessary step in the process of ensuring accessible products.
A good first step is to use accessibility checkers that are available in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. But even when you pass those tests, there may be more work to be done. We collected content to conduct and report on manual testing.
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Accessibility Testing Tools
Browser Extensions
- Paul J Adams Bookmarklets (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge)
- Accessibility Insights for Web (Chrome)
- Accessible Name & Description Inspector-ANDI(Chrome)
- ARC Toolkit by TPGI (Chrome)
- aXe tool (Chrome)
- IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker (Chrome)
- Vox (screen reader) (Chrome)
- WebAIM's WAVE Toolbar (Chrome)
Tools
- HTML5 Accessibility
- Readability Test Tool
- Epilepsy Analysis Tool
- Font conversion
- W3C CSS Validation Service
- W3C Markup Validation Service
- Funkify Disability Simulator
- NVDA (screen-reader program)
- Apple Developer: Accessibility
Color Contrast and Combinations
- Accessible Colors website
- Colbis Color Blindness Simulator
- Color Contrast Spectrum
- Color Safe Color Combinations
- Colour Contrast Analyzer
- WebAIM Color Contrast Checker