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5 amazing Chrome accessibility tools you didn't know!

Chris Bongers on October 08, 2020

I think we are all aware we as developers are responsible for making the web more accessible. With accessibility, we mean making websites that are...
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Nicolás Omar González Passerino

Thanks for the article Chris, has a good variety of options.
I have a question about Lighthouse (i didn't used for now). That tool covers the majority of accesibility variables to look at glance or is a better idea combine it with other tools to have a better coverage?

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Chris Bongers

Lighthouse is a good starting point, yes, but it's thresholds are lower than the individual ones.
So if a11y is your main goal it's best to also keep checking the individual options.

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ZDev1Official

Nice!

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Chris Bongers

Thank you!

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ZDev1Official

no problem!

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Tássio

Really nice post, Bongers! It is too useful. I have used them already and really working good.

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Chris Bongers

Nice! glad to see people putting them to good use.

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Mirela Prifti

Thank you for this article Chris! We should all be more mindful towards accessibility when building web pages and it's great to have these tools at hand

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Chris Bongers

Yes, it's so amazing to see a big player like Google push us to become better.
You can see your pagespeed score will downgrade if your not doing a11y well.

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Ben Sinclair

There's something very similar in Firefox under the dedicated "accessibility" tab.

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Chris Bongers

Oh nice, didn't know about that one!

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Patrick Ahmetovic

Thank you for this list! I didn't know about the vision emulator, seems like a really cool tool - definitely need to try it out.

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Chris Bongers

Definitely! It makes me realize some of my images are really bad for some colorblindness

 
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Chris Bongers

Oh wow great article as well!

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Chris Bongers

I think it's fairly new, only found it myself 2 weeks ago