ADA & WCAG Web Accessibility Resources

WEB ACCESSIBILITY BLOGS & NEWS

Chris Hofstader - Vocal accessibility activist & software engineer @ Freedom Scientific (lead dev of JAWS screen reader) - his blog is very entertaining

A11y Slack Channel - Great source for news, resources and community

ADA WCAG 2.0 BACKGROUND & GUIDELINES

ADA.gov

Title III “Highlights” (no specifics related to websites)

W3C WCAG 2.1

Background and guidelines.

W3C WCAG 2.2
This next update has long been dragging out. It was expected in 2021 but still no final release.

WCAG 2.2 Working Draft

WebAIM : very complete WCAG checklist

WEB ACCESSIBILITY AUDITING & TESTING TOOLS FOR DESIGNERS & DEVELOPERS

Full website auditing tools - indexing the entire site

Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) by Level Access

Enterprise level
Very thorough and used by remediation experts
Very expensive

Tenon.io : Accessibility Compliance Auditor

Multi-page audits and reporting
Great for developers
API
Monthly rates as low as $19/mo

SortSite Accessibility Validator by Power Mapper

They offer two versions: Desktop ($149-$849/user) and Cloud ($49/mo/user)
Checks an entire site and provides Excel and Word reports
WCAG 2.0 117 tests at A, AA, and AAA levels

Individual Page WCAG Web Accessibility Testing Tools & Plugins

axe DevTools by Deque (pronounced D-Q)

From free to Enterprise level toolsets

ARC Toolkit by TPGi

New and free individual page Tester

Wave : Accessibility Compliance Validator - Free

Page by page - not an "auditing tool".
Issues are overlaid on page
Good for non technical people (good for showing the boss for buy-in)

Color and Contrast Testing Tools for Designers

Colour Contrast Analyser (yes, its spelled that way) by The Paciello Group
PC and Mac versions allow designers to test for proper contrast and color blindness.

"No Coffee" Vision Simulator Chrome Plugin simulates how pages appear for people with various vision issues.

LEARNING ABOUT DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY

Giving A Damn About Accessibilty by Sheri Byrne-Haber

The A11Y Project

Accessible Social Guidebook - guide for content developers

University of Minnesota Duluth - exhustive resource for web accessibility design and development

W3C Tutorials - excellent accessibility tutorials for designers and developers

University of Massachusetts Global - Extensive resource list for people with disabilities.