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tools to help audit a site
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- introductory tools, you need humans to help solve your problems
- wave - extension, best tool within a browser.
- lighthouse
- chrome dev tools
- axe - robust for single developer, you want to be testing as you’re developing
- site improve
- contrast checker
- sketch - plugins you can use
- stark - plugin in design tools like xd, sketch etc. Equivalent of grammerly for design. It’s like a spell check, really basic preventable things.
2
Q
- how important is human testing?
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- introductory tools, you need humans to help solve your problems
- software will only detect 30% at it’s highest
- user flow
- in lawsuits settlement agreement will include a provision that will provide end user testing - happens often now
3
Q
common things to follow
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- unlabeled images
* some of good linters will give a warning if you miss alt text - page structure helps with seo and screen readers - like article, section
- html tags use them for their purpose
- in js frameworks - if you use a div as a checkbox you have to reinvent the wheel for compliance; aria labels whole lot of baggage that comes with it - use the native html checkbox element
4
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arya tags
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- arya tags - if you have 2 nav sections - put arya label
- wave will tell you which arya labels are missing
- arya attributes - easy to misuse them - you can do a lot of damage with them, strongly encourage to go to web accessibility and learn how to use time
- if you use the right tags you don’t have to use arya
5
Q
resources
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ada site compliance
