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Axe: Accessibility Testing Tools and Software

https://www.deque.com/axe/

by iforgottherest • 6 years ago

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devadvance• 6 years ago

When building for the web, I use a combination of Lighthouse (Chrome Dev Tools audit) and the axe extension to do a first pass at validating the accessibility of the site/app/etc. Of course, there's an art to this as well.

For example, there's a significant number of individuals with cognitive disabilities [0], so using a combination of axe to ensure heading structure is logical and accurate, plus spending the time to ensure concise and accessible content, is an approach that I take often.

a11y is more than WCAG contrast ratios :)

extra88• 6 years ago

Lighthouse uses axe's engine for accessibility checking [0] and axe's own extension is more up-to-date.

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/acce...

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