Web Accessibility Evaluation Toolbar
Web accessibility - the elimination of online digital barriers - is crucial for customers and clients with disabilities to be able to browse for information, purchase products, pay bills and use other online services. But when those individuals run into accessibility problems, it can prevent them from completing these tasks and may even result in lost business.
A web accessibility toolbar is an automated testing tool that helps you determine, very quickly, whether your website can be used by people with disabilities, or whether it contains barriers. The toolbar includes blue icons that indicate structural elements that can potentially help people using assistive technologies navigate your page more efficiently.
The Web Accessibility Evaluation Toolbar is available as an application software download free Windows and can be installed on Chrome, Firefox or Edge browsers. It provides a quick way to evaluate a website for accessibility compliance, and includes an easy-to-use interface.
It is a visual feedback tool that reports errors, contrast errors, alerts, features, structured elements, and ARIA violations. It also includes a Desaturate page tool so that you can see the site in greyscale to test for contrast issues.
This tool is an excellent resource for content editors and developers to quickly check their site’s accessibility and help identify issues before they go live. It can be used as a manual audit or added to a content or code publishing process, and includes six tabs that let you check different types of results.