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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 for web pages and web applications. The accessibility-checker-extension integrates into the browser development tools, 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

Plug-ins and packages

The Checker is available from the following stores and NPM packages:

• Chrome web store
• Firefox browser ADD-ONS
• Karma plugin
• NodeJS module package
• Cypress package

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’ for unit testing
• Create reports video - A demo of how to create reports and scan multiple pages

Resources

• IBM Equal Access Toolkit - guidance for product managers, designers, developers, and testers
• Alto Mutual - a sample banking web app for demonstration and testing

Support

• Submit a Git issue
• Quick guide (available once installed)
• User guide more in-depth (available once installed)
• Internal IBM - Slack channel #accessibility-at-ibm provides internal support
• Private IBM - Squad channel #ibma-squad-2 for squad discussions