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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:

• Chrome web store
• Firefox ADD-ONS
• Edge Add-on

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:

• NodeJS module
• Karma plugin, package deprecated April 2023
• Cypress plugin
• Java package on Maven

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

• See the Development notes, such as key files, extension architecture, and other resources.
• IBM Equal Access Toolkit - guidance for product managers, designers, developers, and testers.
• Alto Mutual - a sample banking web app for demonstration and testing.
• Checker's implementation of ACT rules.

Support

• Submit a Git issue
• Quick guide (available to users once installed)
• User guide more in-depth (available to users once installed)
• Internal IBM - Slack channel #accessibility-at-ibm provides internal support
• Private IBM - Squad channel #ibma-squad-2 for squad discussions