Testing tools
One page testing tools
Color contrast analysers
- Paciello Group’s Color Contrast Analyser (available for Mac and Windows) – operates as an eyedropper
- Juicy Studio Luminosity Color Contrast Analyser – operates via HEX values
Browser bookmarklets / extensions
- OzART CSS and Table Inspector (Firefox). The “CSS off” tool checks for any visibility:hidden or aria-hidden=true elements, notes them, and then strips all CSS from the page. It then sets visibility:hidden on those noted elements from the first step. This provides an approximation of what a screen reader user will encounter. The table inspector finds any tables in the page. It changes the styling so that it is easy to identify TH and TD cells. It also highlights related cells on mouse hover, and provides cell information (e.g., the list of HEADERS) on mouse click. Please note that this
- Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Toolbar – be careful using the Disable CSS styles as it also disabled display:none which is ignored by screen readers. (Chrome, FireFox, Opera)
- WAVE toolbar (Chrome)
- The Paciello Group’s Web Accessibility Toolbar (IE)
- Deque’s aXe extension (Chrome and Firefox)
- Chrome’s Accessibility Developer Tools (Chrome) – adds an “Accessibility” panel to the inspect mode, which shows you all the accessibility-related things on the selected element.
- AInspector Sidebar (Firefox)
- University of Illinois’ Accessibility Bookmarklets (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE 9+)
- ChromeLens
- Funkify
Readability test
Automated accessibility testing tools
How to choose an automated accessibility testing tool
- OzART (let me know if you want a demo!)
- Deque Worldspace, see a Worldspace demo
- Level Access AMP
- Cryptzone Compliance Sheriff
- SortSite, see a SortSite demo
- FAE (also does one page evaluations)
- SiteImprove, see a SiteImprove demo
- Monsido
- Tenon
- Asqatasun (requires high-level of technical knowledge)
Automating test cases (requires high-level of technical knowledge)
Browser testing tools
Mobile app and mobile site testing tools
- SideSync – display your connected Samsung device on your desktop
- Vysor – display your connected Android device on your desktop
- Reflector 2 – display your wirelessly connected iOS, Windows or Android device on your desktop (can also record video)
- Google’s Accessibility Scanner for Android
- Mobile Site and Native App Testing Methodologies
Testing during development
- Tenon
- aXe
Information on testing
These factsheets have several sections, including principles, impact on users, developer checklist (with correct and incorrect code), Manager checklist (with testing requirements), Automated testing tool information (WAVE and OzART):