Automated Tools for Testing the accessibility

To check if your website is accessible to other people or not who are extraordinary personalities with disabilities. There are some automated tools that crawl your website’s code with the existing content on it and flags the errors based on WCAG.

Some free automated tools :

• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool - by WebAIM.

• axe DevTools - by Deque

Tool to check some specific area of code or content :

• HeadingMap - available for Chrome and Firefox.

Color contrast checker :

• Contrast Checker - by WebAIM.

Screen readers :

• NVDA - This is free and open source screen reader which has a synthetic voice that reads whatever the cursor hovers over, and can be used directly.

• Chromevox screen Reader - It is a chrome extension which works only in browser.

• JAWS - It provides speech and braille output for the most popular computer applications.

Feel free to add more tools if you find useful.