Evaluation Tools
Difficulty: Beginner
Category:
- Validation
Web accessibility evaluation has many aspects. No automated evaluation tool can tell you if your site is accessible. A good evaluation tool will guide a person through evaluation of true accessibility. While guidelines and checklists are useful, a site can be compliant to an accessibility guideline, standard, or checklist, yet still be totally inaccessible to some users. Screen reader or other user testing is a wonderful way to ensure accessibility for that user, but may not provide sufficient insight into true accessibility. Only a combination of effective automated testing, manual checks, and user testing will provide a good assurance of the accessibility of a site.
See the WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool.
