Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free Mobile Accessibility Testing for Android and iOS (PDF, 2.6MB) is a free accessible PDF outlining how to test native apps and the web for accessibility on Android and iOS. It provides an overview of accessibility settings, how to use them and common testing tools. InstructionsContinue reading “Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free “
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Best Color Contrast Checkers for Accessibility Testing
Whether you are designing, developing, testing or auditing, a contrast ratio checker is the best way to ensure your site or app passes accessibility criteria. As a designer you can use a simple value checker to plug in foreground and background color value as you use them. You could also use other tools to check final design designsContinue reading “Best Color Contrast Checkers for Accessibility Testing”
PAVE 2.0: A New Generation of the Web Tool for PDF Accessibility
The ICT-Accessibility Lab of the ZHAW, in collaboration with the Swiss Blind and Visually Impaired Association (SBV), has developed a web tool called PAVE which quickly and easily makes existing PDF documents accessible. This is critical for allowing existing screen-reading programs to read the correct content. With PAVE 2.0, the existing web tool has beenContinue reading “PAVE 2.0: A New Generation of the Web Tool for PDF Accessibility “
Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE
Introduction WAVE is a web accessibility tool that can greatly assist in the evaluation of web content. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page. … WAVE, like any other automated tool, cannot tell you if your page isContinue reading “Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE”
Accessibility Checker Goes Open Source
It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day today! To celebrate it in a big way, we would like to announce that as of today, Accessibility Checker for CKEditor will be available also under an Open Source GPL license. If you care about accessibility, want to learn more about how important it is, and get to know ourContinue reading “Accessibility Checker Goes Open Source”
Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE
WAVE is a web accessibility tool that can greatly assist in the evaluation of web content. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page. Before proceeding, be sure to read the Help page for an overview of usingContinue reading “Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE”
How to Measure Color Contrast, for Web Accessibility …
The essence of accessible color contrast is simple. Given a foreground color and a background color, the contrast between those two must be distinguishable in a wide variety of environments, by individuals with different color perception abilities. Using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG — version 2.0, these contrasts are measured using an algorithmContinue reading “How to Measure Color Contrast, for Web Accessibility …”
Contrast Ratio: Easily calculate color contrast ratios. Passing WCAG was never this easy!
The simplest, easiest tool for quickly finding good contrast: As you type, the contrast ratio indicated will update. Hover over the circle to get more detailed information. When semi-transparent colors are involved as backgrounds, the contrast ratio will have an error margin, to account for the different colors they may be over. … CuratedContinue reading “Contrast Ratio: Easily calculate color contrast ratios. Passing WCAG was never this easy!”
Accessibility Developer Tools – Chrome Web Extension
Accessibility audit and element properties. This extension will add an Accessibility audit, and an Accessibility sidebar pane in the Elements tab, to your Chrome Developer Tools. To use the audit: go to the Audits tab, select the Accessibility audit, and click Run. The audit results will appear as a list of rules which are violatedContinue reading “Accessibility Developer Tools – Chrome Web Extension”
PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2)
PAC 2 tests PDF files quickly with respect to accessibility. PAC 2 is the support of experts and stakeholders in the evaluation tests. The completely newly developed version of PAC 2 examines the PDF / UA-conformity of PDFs. The PDF review has been further improved, so that PAC 2 You can even better assist youContinue reading “PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2)”