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WAVE by WebAIM

WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser extensions are available for testing accessibility directly within your web browser - handy for checking password protected, locally stored, or highly dynamic pages.

Axe DevTools by Deque

The free axe DevTools browser extension is a fast, lightweight, yet powerful testing tool driven by the world’s most trusted accessibility testing engine, axe-core, developed by Deque. With the push of a button, axe DevTools analyzes your site, automatically surfacing the majority of common accessibility issues.

Colour Contrast Analyser by TPGI

TPGi’s free color contrast checker tool that allows you to easily determine the contrast ratio of two colors simply using an eyedrop tool. The CCA enables you to optimize your content–including text and visual elements–for individuals with vision disabilities like color-blindness and low-vision impairments.

Colorable by jxnblk

Colorable is a web-based color contrast checker that can quickly identify safe color combinations and their compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It includes options for hue, saturation, and lightness.

Accessibility Annotations by eBay

Include is a tool built to make annotating for accessibility (a11y) easier—easier for designers to spec and easier for developers to understand what is required. The intent is to have accessibility considerations included during the design phase of any project, and to help with the designer-developer collaboration.

Axe for Designers by Deque

Easily start building accessibility into your Figma designs and confidently pass your intent on to Developers with the Auto-Annotations Beta. Driven by machine learning, it automatically scans your designs for form controls such as buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and labels. It then adds these annotations to your designs, including code recommendations to ensure that your intent is coded correctly by developers.

Kaltura REACH by Kaltura

Kaltura REACH is a service that provides captions and enrichment services for your videos. It uses Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) to recognize words spoken in your video and provide machine-based captions for your video. Kaltura REACH captions are typically 75-85% accurate and can improve over time as the program adapts to learn your voice. Kaltura REACH also provides an editor to revise and improve the accuracy of your video captions.

Microsoft Teams by Microsoft

All ºÚÁÏÍø staff and faculty have access to Microsoft Teams. It can create real-time captions during a meeting, and generate a transcript which can be used to produce more accurate captions once the meeting is over. Like Kaltura, it uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology to create accurate captions which improve over time.

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ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) by WAI

Learn to use the accessibility semantics defined by the Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification to create accessible web experiences. This guide describes how to apply accessibility semantics to common design patterns and widgets. It provides design patterns and functional examples complemented by in-depth guidance for fundamental practices.

Tips for Developing by WAI

This guide introduces some basic considerations to help you get started developing web (digital) content that is more accessible to people with disabilities. These tips are good practice to help you meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements, and can be applied early and often in your development process.