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Accessibility audits are fun!

Jess Lee on June 08, 2017

At conferences, I always gravitate towards accessibility talks. I think the subject is super interesting and I always come out wanting to be an adv...
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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

Thanks for mentioning my post! I haven't opened Canary in quite a while, so I'll definitely check that out.

Apart from testing web sites for accessibility, it's also a good idea to test out the (transactional) emails that your app or site sends. Often, people use images as buttons, without descriptive alt text.

2 small corrections: The link to Saron Yitbarek's talk at Signal is currently incorrectly formatted, and I think it might be good to link to the download page for canary so people who are inspired cna quickly go and download it.

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Jess Lee

Great call, I added the Canary link and fixed the link to Saron's talk.

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Aaron

If users want to grab this accessibility check without having to grab the dev version of Chrome, they can use Google Lighthouse. It's the same tech :)

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travis marasca

or grab aXe which is what powers the accessibility bit of Lighthouse :)

deque.com/products/axe/

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Dirk Ginader

Thank you so much for caring Jess!
This made my day and teaching Devs about Accessibility really worthwhile :-)

Let's not forget the Accessibility inspector tab:
Chrome Dev tools Accessibility inspector showing a button that isn't a button
And this is how you can activate it:
Chrome Dev tools Accessibility inspector showing a button that isn't a button