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Welcome to the equal-access Wiki

About

The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker is a set of automated test tools that check web code for accessibility issues.

It's an open-source freely available set of tools for web developers and accessibility auditors. It utilizes a set of rules and the accessibility-checker-engine, which detects accessibility issues on web pages and web applications. The accessibility-checker-extension integrates into the browser development tools (DevTools), providing an integrated checking experience, a keyboard checker mode visualization, and helps users quickly identify the source of accessibility issues and try fixes.

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 and packages

The Checker is available as a DevTools extension and NPM package from the following stores:

• Chrome web store
• Firefox ADD-ONS
• Karma plugin
• NodeJS module package
• Cypress package
• Edge Add-on

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 Table of contents above for 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