Accessibility Mindset

A curated list of awesome Accessibility tools and resources.

Table of Contents

• W3C Specification
• Development Testing and Validators
  • Audit Online
  • Bookmarklets
  • Chrome Extensions
  • Firefox Add-ons
  • Software
  • CLI Tools
• Screen Readers
• Design Resources
• Captioning Resources

W3C Specification

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - WCAG 2.0
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
• Using ARIA in HTML
• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1
• Before and After Demonstration - Improving a Web site using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
• How to Meet WCAG 2.0 - A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and techniques.
• WebAIM’s WCAG 2.0 Checklist for HTML documents

Development Testing and Validators

Audit Online

• Tenon.io
• WAVE

Bookmarklets

• A11Y.css
• aslint.org
• pa11y
• tota11y - Accessibility Visualization Toolkit

Chrome Extensions

• Accessibility Developer Tools for Chrome
• Chrome Accessibility Extensions - Extensions to improve your Chrome experience.
• Chrome Lens - Color Blindness Simulator
• Web Developer Toolbar

Firefox Add-ons

• Web Developer Toolbar
• WCAG Color Contrast Checker

Software

• Color Oracle - App (Mac/Win/Linux)
• Colour Contrast Analyzer (Mac/Win)

CLI Tools

• A11y Command-line Tools
• aXe Command-line Tools

Screen Readers

• ChromeVox
• JAWS (Win)
• NVDA (Win)
• Orca Screen Reader Desktop App - Linux
• Basic screen reader commands for accessibility testing - By Paciello Group
• VoiceOver - By Apple, iPhone App (iOS)
• VoiceOver - By Apple, Desktop App (Mac)

Design Resources

• Color Safe
• Touch Up Reading Order tool for PDFs - Overview - The Touch Up Reading Order tool is intended for repairing PDFs and make them accessible

Captioning Resources

• Amara - Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified.
• IBM Watson Speech to Text service

More coming soon…