Accessibility Auditing Resources

This document gathers links, citations, and other resources related to doing an accessibility audit, technologies that may require audits, and resources for developers.

Web Accessibility Audit

Standards Documentation

• WCAG 2.1: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• WAI-ARIA 1.1: Accessible Rich Internet Applications
• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1

Resources

• Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy: Chang School online book
• LEAP: Library E-content Access Project
• Penn State Testing/Triage
• Indiana University: Perform an Accessibility Review on Your Website
• The A11y Project
• WCAG 2.1 AA Project Management Responsibility Breakdown - University of Melbourne
• Plain Language Summary of Accessibility Guidelines (beta)
• WebAIM Training Resources
• UConn’s Accessibility Audit Methodology

Checklists

• Webaim WCAG 2 Checklist
• Vox Media Checklist
• Expedia Checklist
• WUHCAG: WCAG 2.0 Checklists
• Elsevier Web Accessibility Checklist

Tools

• W3C Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
• SiteImprove Accessibility Checker: Chrome extension
• aXe: Chrome plugin for developer tools
• Accessible Insights for Web: Chrome extension (Microsoft)
• HTML_CodeSniffer: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE extension
• The Ace App: EPUB accessibility checker

Screen Reader Testing

• Testing with Screen Readers Q&A: WebAIM
• NVDA: Windows, free
• VoiceOver: Mac OS X and iOS, free
• JAWS: Windows, paid
• TalkBack (Android, free)
• ChromeVox (Chrome, Windows, and Mac OS X, free)