# Accessibility (compliance) checkers

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 16, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480 "2017-10-16T19:24:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lynxlynxlynx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/lynxlynxlynx/32/2597_2.png) [@lynxlynxlynx](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/lynxlynxlynx)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480/1 "2017-10-16T19:24:09Z")

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In case you care about accessibility — usability through assistive technologies, enabling the use of websites to people with various disabilities, here’s a short list of tools that can be of great help.

They will also shed some light on all those aria- attributes that you may have seen in bootstrap code.

Besides the [lighthouse](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse) checker now externalised from chromium, there’s also:

- tota11y: [https://khan.github.io/tota11y/](https://khan.github.io/tota11y/)
- tenon (VERY detailed): [https://tenon.io](https://tenon.io)

- [http://wave.webaim.org/](http://wave.webaim.org/)
- [http://cynthiasays.com/](http://cynthiasays.com/) (looks like it requires feeding an email)

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**Author:** ![owel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/owel/32/48425_2.png) [@owel](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/owel)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480/2 "2017-10-16T20:23:37Z")

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Thanks for the link. Not even aware of this Lighthouse extension… or Progressive Web Apps. Will need to learn more about PWA

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**Author:** ![ArielLeslie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/arielleslie/32/264841_2.png) [@ArielLeslie](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ArielLeslie)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480/3 "2017-10-16T20:35:33Z")

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I’m moving the post to the Reviews section to make it easier for other campers to find when they are looking for tools. I encourage anyone to contribute pros and cons of these and other accessibility compliance tools.

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**Author:** ![lynxlynxlynx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/lynxlynxlynx/32/2597_2.png) [@lynxlynxlynx](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/lynxlynxlynx)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480/4 "2017-10-17T21:17:24Z")

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Two more recommendations from a11y experts:

- [http://wave.webaim.org/](http://wave.webaim.org/)
- [http://cynthiasays.com/](http://cynthiasays.com/) (looks like it requires feeding an email)

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/accessibility-compliance-checkers/153480/5 "2021-01-16T18:02:39Z")

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Closed on January 16, 2021, 6:02pm UTC