Accessibility auditing tools

These tools can help you audit and assess your knowledge base's accessibility:

• Sa11y & Editoria11y: Straightforward content accessibility at scale: Compares two tools for promoting and checking accessibility within content management systems
  • Sa11y Accessibility Quality Assurance Assistant: One of the two tools discussed in the talk, available for Joomla, WordPress, or as a bookmarklet in your browser
  • Editoria11y Accessibility Checker: The second tool, available for Drupal, WordPress, and Squarespace
• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: The WAVE browser extension is Kenzie’s go-to tool for a first pass on accessibility questions. It gives a lot of complex info, which can be overwhelming, but:
  • If you're seeing a lot of actual errors and contrast errors, you don't have to understand all of those errors to know that there's likely a problem, and knowing there's a problem is the first step 😉.
  • The "Structure" tool quickly shows you a list of the headings on the page and makes it easy to spot skipped levels, etc.
• axe Devtools: Some of our team used the browser extension of this tool when it was in a free beta to test some of our own accessibility. We haven't used it since it went paid, but we found it very useful at the time!

Have a tool you've used that we should add? Leave a comment below and let us know!