Web Accessibility Resources

In this section you can find a curated list of resources related to web accessibility, including (but not limited to):

  • references to web accessibility standards and guidelines, along with supporting documents to help you make content conforming to them;
  • testing tools and evaluation techniques, to help you evaluate the conformance of your content to those standards;
  • frameworks and libraries designed to help you develop accessible websites and applications.

Resources

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Color Palette Contrast Analyzer

Vincenzo Rubano
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Being developed by Deque Systems (the same company behind products such as axe-core and Axe Dev Tools), this color palette contrast analyzer is a web service that allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between all colors in your color palette.

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Accessible Colors

Vincenzo Rubano
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This minimal, easy to use web service allows you to quickly test wether the contrast ratio between two colors (foreground and background) is enough for your text to be accessible.

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WebAIM Contrast Checker

Vincenzo Rubano
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This service provided by WebAIM (the same company behind the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)) allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between foreground and background colors.

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WebAIM Link Contrast Checker

Vincenzo Rubano
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For better usability and accessibility, links should be underlined by default. Otherwise, according to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) link text must have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio with the surrounding body text, and must present a non-color indicator (typically underline) on mouse hover and keyboard focus.

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ColorZilla

Vincenzo Rubano
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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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Open Dyslexic

Vincenzo Rubano
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OpenDyslexic is an open source typeface that aims to help with some of the symptoms of dyslexia, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5).

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Using The Web Speech Api

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this guide you can learn how to leverage the Web Speech API in order to perform speech synthesis (Text to Speech, TTS) and speech recognition within a browser.

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Web Speech Api

Vincenzo Rubano
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The so called “Web Speech API” is a set of APIs that allow you to integrate support for speech in your websites or applications. It is made of by two main parts:

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WAI-ARIA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), you can find a collection of the most frequently asked questions about the WAI-ARIA specification, how it is supported by web browsers and assistive technologies, and things you can do to start using this specification.

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How to Meet WCAG 2.1 (Quick Reference)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.

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WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

Vincenzo Rubano
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Published in 2014, WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide is a W3C recommendation that contains a “user agent developer’s guide to understanding and implementing the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification.

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Getting Started With Lighthouse

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this support document available from the Google Developers portal, you can find instructions on how to get started using Lighthouse, a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”.

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