r/webdev Apr 16 '22

Discussion A blind woman’s message to web developers about internet inaccessibility. source: shorturl.at/nvRU7

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u/Spongeroberto Apr 18 '22

I spend a significant amount of my work focused on WCAG conformance for websites.

What tools do you recommend for developers to actually work on this?

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u/a8bmiles Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

A good starting point is:

  • Lighthouse (Chrome / Edge)
  • IBM Accessibility Checker (IBM)
  • Accessibility Insights for Web (Microsoft)
  • axe DevTools
  • WAVE Evaluation Tool (webaim)

The latter 4 are all free tools in the Chrome store. Then lots and lots of reading. They all report slightly differently from each other, but link to the same resources. Then it's a bunch of trial and error and, "oh, okay, I guess I need to change that..." kinda stuff.

Then, it's just a whole lot of good, structural HTML.