Resources for
"Top Testing Tools for Accessibility"

Resources referenced from the IAAP webinar, overview information.

Presentation

The presentation is available to participants through the IAAP, if you attended you should have that information. A recording of it will be available soon.

Test file

The HTML page used during the webinar to try the various tools: Test file.

Also of note is the analysis of WCAG 2 checkpoints I made for their 'automatable-ness', which is in a spreadsheet of WCAG 2 criteria.

List of tools

All of the tools mentioned during the webinar:

Review tools

• Colour Contrast Analyser
• Browser 'inspectors' are built into each (desktop) browser, see introductions for:
  • Chrome
  • IE
  • Firefox & Firebug
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Web developer's toolbar for Firefox/Chrome.
• Jim Thatcher's favlets for any browser.
• Revenge.css bookmarklet, (test on Twitter bootstrap).
• Wave toolbar for Firefox.
• Web accessibility toolbar for Internet Explorer.
• HTML Code Sniffer bookmarklet.
• AInspector sidebar for Firefox.
• Google's Accessibility Developer Tools installs under the "Audit" tab in Chrome's developer tools.
• aViewer, for windows.
• Xcode for OSX.

Report tools

• FAE 2.0 from the Open Accessibility Alliance and OpenAjax Accessibility Task Force.
• FireEyes from Deque.
• AMP from SSBart Group.
• Compliance Sheriff from HiSoftware.

Developer tools

• Grunt accessibility for running front-end development tasks with Grunt.
• pa11y runs as a server.
• Tenon, API run as a service (documentation).
• Wave API

Also recommended by Austin Seraphin in the webinar was Motion-Accessibility for iOS accessibility testing.

Notes I made whilst evaluating the tools: tools evaluation spreadsheet.

Published Test libraries

• OpenAjax Accessibility Evaluation Library (written in Javascript)
• Google's Accessibility Audit Tests
• HTML Code Sniffer's documentation, and the source code.

Other links from the presentation

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 the infamous and necessary WCAG.
• Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)
• Using aViewer presentation and aViewer Video from Steve Faulkner
• Colour accessibility ebook which also links to:
  • Color Oracle a colour-blindness simulator for Windows/Mac/Linux.
  • ColorBrewer for creating colour-blind friendly colour schemes for data presentation.
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2
• The Viking reference: Everything you know about accessibility testing is wrong (and Part 2, 3 and 4).

Attributions

• Cat picture - Nikita on Flickr