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Phill Jenkins edited this page Feb 18, 2025 · 29 revisions

Welcome to the equal-access Wiki

About

The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker is an open-source freely available set of tools for web developers and accessibility auditors. The accessibility-checker-engine utilizes a set of rules that map to accessibility standards to detect accessibility issues in web content and applications. The accessibility-checker-extension integrates into browser DevTools, providing an integrated scanning experience, a keyboard checker mode visualization, and helps users quickly identify the source of accessibility issues, understand what to do, and try fixes. The Checker is also available as a package for CI/CD environments and automated testing frameworks.

The Checker does not collect or send your web data to any servers:

  • all your web data is kept local
  • the rules and engine are downloaded and run locally
  • no data is being used, sold, or transferred to 3rd parties

Extensions

The Checker is available as a browser development tools (DevTools) extension from the following stores:

Packages for test automation

Packages are available for integrating into your Continuous Integrations/Continuous Development (CI/CD) environments, such as Node Package Manager NPM for JavaScript environments and testing frameworks (parsing engines) such as Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Zombie:

Videos

  • Intro video - An introduction to the browser web developer tools extension and how to install it
  • Focus view video - A demo of the ‘Focus view’ feature for unit testing
  • Create reports video - A demo of how to create reports and scan multiple pages

Resources

Support