Importance of Accessibility
Accessibility is extremely important when creating any form of website or application because it makes your platform an inclusion site that welcomes people regardless of their circumstance. A website that has great accessibility draws in more clients for a business and also increases the SEO score whenever their name is used on a search engine. Today, I am going to run an audit on Power Thesaurus which is a digital dictionary commonly used by people to search for synonyms antonyms or definition for a word. I will be using Lighthouse, Wave and Web.dev to check how well the website does in terms of its accessibility, SEO, etc.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse is a built in google extension that is part of the chrome web browser. To access lighthouse, I recommend you first visit the website,right click and select the inspect tab. Then at the top of Elements bar select lighthouse and click on generate report.You can also access lighthouse through dev tools as well. When I run the audit using lighthouse on PowerThesaurus. It can me a report of the Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices,SEO,and Progress Web App. There were problems highlights in the accessibility category such as the background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio and warning about how disabling zooming is problematic for users with low vision who rely on screen magnification to properly see the contents of a web page.
WAVE
Unlike lighthouse, Wave is a website and an external extension that also gives detailed assessment on website. To test this, we have to copy the URL of the auditing site and search or install their extension. After using wave on PowerThesaurus there was one error contrast error and thirteen ARIA errors, which checks to see if names are accessible to be read by screen readers.
Web.dev
Similar to Wave, you search up the auditing site by its URL. However, the report was similar to that of lighthouse. The report from Wave stated that PowerThesaurus , had bad accessibility with total blocking time, time of interactive, Performance and Accessibility.
Below is a Link to my youtube, where I explain how to use these tools
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