I actually have a real life chance to use this feature. But I’m finding it kind of lacking. If it gives a WCAG Compliance rating of ‘No’ is there a way to find out why? Just a ‘No’ is not helpful.
I find I have images especially that have no compliance. Would be nice if the tool told you how to fix it.
Is there other third party tools that one can use to check compliance?
I was delighted when I noticed the new Accessibility working mode in a recent beta! Bravo to the team for making accessibility more accessible for all of us!
From the observed behavior on my test site, I got the impression that it was only considering the contrast of the selected element. Images won’t pass WCAG without an alt label, so if it is not contrast it could be that. This is the cheatsheet I use for WCAG compliance: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/
I didn’t get the impression from the original post or the testing I did that that the Accessibility Working Mode “check” was going beyond alt tags and contrast ratios (for example, I didn’t notice any errors related to keyboard traps on my pages).
I have used a few accessibility checking services over the years, but I find the best first few runthroughs to be on your own device… preferably an iOS device using VoiceOver and no touching the screen.
If you have a situation where regulatory pressures demand more of a professional solution, I have had a good experience with SayYeah.com -however, their pricing has raised significantly since I last had a need for their services, so there may be better options.
I’ve tried https://www.siteimprove.com/glossary/wcag-compliance-checker/ but it doesn’t seem to pick up the content pages in a SPA scenerio. Also cannot check secure site pages.
Hmmm, I see that you may be correct. Really lessens the value of the tool if that is all it checks. Hopefully this is just the first steps of a great feature.
Although it would be amazing to learn it can do more than this, I am really glad for the inclusion regardless - contrast is often an issue overlooked by web developers with great monitors and/or great eyesight.
For the reasons you mentioned (logins, SPAs + apps, notifications…), I can’t foresee a way to 100% automate this kind of thing.
This is interesting to me. I’m not sure how I would even use my iOS devices with voiceover. I need to try and figure that out.