Testing

In this section you can find various resources to help you test and evaluate the accessibility of your web pages and applications, assessing their conformance to web accessibility standards and guidelines.

While automated accessibility testing is technically possible (and actually useful!), unfortunately it is not enough. You need to perform manual accessibility testing in order to ensure that your product is accessible!

Resources

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Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List (W3C)

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Web accessibility evaluation tools are tools you can use to evaluate wether web content (websites or applications) meets accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying actual issues and potential ones; some of them are also designed to be used as development aids.

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Tenon.io

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Powering the accessibility of many big companies over the world, Tenon.io is a commercial web service that allows you to test your web page or application for accessibility issues.

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EPUB Accessibility 1.0

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Made available by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) (now merged with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)), EPUB accessibility establishes several guidelines to allow the evaluation and certification of accessible EPUB Publications, as well as enabling the discovery of the accessible qualities of EPUB Publications.

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EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.1

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Published as a working group note by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), EPUB Accessibility Techniques is a document that provides guidance on how to meet the EPUB Accessibility discovery and accessibility requirements for EPUB publications.

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EPUBCheck

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Developed by the DAISY consortium on behalf of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), EPUBCheck is a tool that can be used to validate the conformance of EPUB publications against the EPUB specifications.

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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Report Tool

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Being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) report tool is a web service designed to help accessibility testers and evaluators report on the accessibility of authoring tools.

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Web Accessibility for Designers

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The process of creating an accessible website or application begins much earlier than the first line of code that implements it is written: the visual design of a page or screen can have a very significant impact!

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Text Spacing Bookmarklet

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People with visual impairments may use certain typographic settings to make web pages more readable, but they can have an impact on the layout of your page.

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Font Finder

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Font Finder is a very simple browser extension (currently available for Google Chrome only, and compatible with Microsoft Edge) that allows you to easily inspect all font-related properties for each element in a web page.

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Magnifying Glass (Hover Zoom)

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Available for Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox (and compatible with Microsoft Edge as well), Magnifying Glass (Hover Zoom) is a simple browser extension that allows you to magnify a limited area of a web page.

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ColorZilla

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Available for both Mozilla Firefox and google Chrome, ColorZilla is an extension that can make your life easier while testing and evaluating color contrast in your web page, or choose the right color during the design process.

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Accessibility Inspector (WWDC 2019)

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Quoting Apple, “the Accessibility Inspector enables you to identify parts of your app that are not accessible. It provides feedback on how you can make them accessible, as well as simulating voice-over to help you identify what a Voice Over user would experience”.

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