Accessibility tools and resources
Category: Accessibility
Here are some links to a handful of tools you might find useful when working on and testing web accessibility.
Screen readers
- VoiceOver (already shipped with MacOS): pair with Safari
- NVDA: pair with Firefox on Windows
- JAWS: pair with Chrome on Windows
- ChromeVox (built-in on Chromebooks): pair with Chrome
Screen reader plugins
If you are working with NVDA, the Focus Highlight Plugin might come in handy as it provides a way to get a visual indication of the focused item when NVDA is on.
VSCode extensions
Chrome extensions
- axe Web Accessibility Testing
- ARC Toolkit
- Lighthouse
- Accessibility Insights for Web
- Tota11y Plugin
- WAVE Evaluation Tool
- High Contrast
- Accessible Color Picker
- headingsMap
- Web Developer
- NerdeRegion
Bookmarklets
Apps
Useful webapps/websites
- HTML5 Accessibility
- HTML5 Please
- Color Review
- Color Checker
- Main rich interface components accessibility guidelines
Browser based DevTools
- chrome://accessibility/ (Chrome)
- edge://accessibility/ (Edge)
- Accessibility Inspector (Firefox)
- Accessibility Node Inspection in WebKit Web Inspector (Safari)