What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage – Accessibility in government

What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage

What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage

Posted by:
Mehmet Duran, Posted on: 24 February 2017

Categories:
Access needs, Accessibility, Code, Content, Design, Testing

We recently conducted an audit of automated accessibility testing tools. We built a website full of accessibility failures to test them on. We’ve published our findings here.

In this blog post we talk about what we did and what we discovered.

The pros and cons of automated tools

Automated accessibility testing tools can be used to identify accessibility issues on websites. As the name suggests, they are automated tools that can be run on websites and can identify a number of issues.

There are several available, such as Wave and Tenon. Many of them are free and can be accessed online.

Automated tools can be a useful and cheap way of helping you make a service more accessible. They are quick to run and provide immediate feedback. They can be run across lots of pages. Some can be integrated into the build process, so they can identify issues almost as [...]

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