WCAG

by LenSoftware Administrator on 21 August, 2020

Recently I was asked which tools I use to check accessibility. Of course, like so many web developers, I rely on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) which are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The most current version of the guidelines are WCAG 2.1, with WCAG 2.2 due to be released in November this year. (WCAG 2.2 is out for public comment currently.) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a pretty comprehensive list of tools, see:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/#tools.

Here is a short list of tools that I like and use:-

Browser plugins

• Axe –
  https://www.deque.com/axe (my personal favourite)
• Webaim –
  https://wave.webaim.org

Contrast checkers

• Accessible colour generator –
  https://learnui.design/tools/accessible-color-generator.html
• Again from Webaim –
  https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker

Other useful tools

• Palette generator –
  https://coolors.co
• Palette generator –
  https://mycolor.space
• Sass colour generator (helps with lightening, darkening and desaturating colors) -
  http://scg.ar-ch.org