Accessibility

Accessibility and inclusive design should be the first considerations when designing a digital product, service or website. A full list of categories is also available.

1. Accessibility scanner

   Categories: Accessibility, Android and Mobile

   Accessibility Scanner can help you to improve your app for users, and is available on all Android mobile phones.

2. Lighthouse & Playwright

   Categories: Accessibility, Design, GithubActions, Keyboard, Lighthouse, Performance, Playwright, Screenreader and Web

   Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool to help you improve the quality of web pages. Playwright is an open-source automation framework that is used for testing web applications

3. Lighthouse & Github

   Categories: Accessibility, Design, GithubActions, Keyboard, Lighthouse, Performance, Screenreader and Web

   Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool to help you improve the quality of web pages.

4. Virtual screen reader

   Categories: Accessibility, Guidepup, Jest, Screenreader and Web

   Virtual Screen Reader mirrors screen reader functionality, tp simulate and assert on what users can do when using screen readers.

5. Web Rotor

   Categories: Accessibility, Mobile, Screenreader and Web

   Web Rotor is a feature available in VoiceOver and NVDA, which represents a page using categorised lists.

6. IBM Accessibility Checker

   Categories: Accessibility, Design, DeveloperTools, Keyboard, Screenreader and Web

   IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker is a browser extension that can be accessed from the Developer toolbar.

7. Pa11y Dashboard

   Categories: Accessibility, Design, Keyboard, Screenreader and Web

   Pa11y Dashboard which is a code monitoring tool, to check web pages for WCAG compliance.

8. Guidepup (Voiceover)

   Categories: Accessibility, Guidepup, Playwright, Screenreader and Web

   Guidepup is a screen reader driver for test automation for NVDA and Voiceover, mirroring what users really do and hear when using screen readers.

9. Guidepup (NVDA)

   Categories: Accessibility, Guidepup, Playwright, Screenreader and Web

   Guidepup is a screen reader driver for test automation for NVDA and VoiceOver.

10. Axe Scan

    Categories: Accessibility, Design, Keyboard, Screenreader and Web

    Axe Scan tool is code scanning tool and based on axe-core, which is used for many accessibility tools, including Lighthouse.

11. Pa11y CI

    Categories: Accessibility, Design, Keyboard, Pa11y, Screenreader and Web

    Command-line CI-friendly tool to run against urls and supports basic scripting.

12. Accessible colors

    Categories: Accessibility and Design

    This is a tool to automate the generation of accessible enterprise UI color palettes.

13. Accessibility in SDLC

    Article posted Accessibility and Automation

    Adding accessibility checks into the SDLC can help you keep on track for WCAG compliance.

14. Espresso & Accessibility

    Categories: Accessibility, Android, DeviceTesting, Espresso and Mobile

    Included with Espresso is the AccessibilityChecks class. This class uses the Accessibility Test Framework that is used throughout all of Android products.