Tanaguru

Tanaguru is an opensource (AGPL license) website assessment tool dedicated to

• accessibility (a11y) audits

Features

Four kinds of audit:

• offline file audit
• page audit
• entire website audit (Heritrix crawler embedded)
• scenario audit

(That's the DOM that is tested, thus dealing with JS/AJAX/ARIA)

Vision

1. Automate as much as we can and more :)
2. Be 200% reliable (don't give erroneous result)
3. have technological fun

Download

http://www.tanaguru.org/Download/tanaguru-latest.tar.gz

Demo

http://beta.tanaguru.com/

Installation and documentation

Tanaguru wiki (registration is warmly welcomed, please email mfaure AT tanaguru. org)

More precisely:

• Installation
• Configuration
• How to build

Business: accessibility

What tests are covered:

• all the "tag and attributes tests" like missing alt, table headers check, frame title...
• color contrast
• language specification
• downloadable files / office files (spreadsheet, wordprocessor...)
• switch of context
• ...

By january 2014, this represents ~170 accessibility tests

Contact and mailing-list

We have a mailing lists dedicated to Tanaguru user and development discussion. To subscribe, send an empty message to :

    tanaguru-users-fr@lists.adullact.net

Or you can send an email to

    tanaguru AT tanaguru dot org 

(only english, french and klingon is spoken :) )

Content of this (last) version

Bugs :

• #47 : The language detection tests return bad results for uppercase submitted text

Features :

• Rgaa 2.2 referential full supported
• Postgresql management (creation and insertion scripts)
• Crawl optimisations (deal with canonical, improve fetch counting, improve fetch of testable data)
• #50 : Provide a way to set-up whether the cookies have to be considered while crawling
• #49 : [SEO 6.4.1] For a given title value, sort URLs
• #46 : Override default user agent used by apache library to test URL before launching effectively the audit
• #43 : Disable the load of Css content for audit of SEO type
• #37 : Mail server is not configurable

Other opensource tools

• KBAccess : database of good and bad examples of web accessibility
• Tanaguru Contrast-Finder : for a given wrong contrast, propose good color combination
• Accessibility observatory : have an overview of the accessibility of a large set of websites

All these projects are opensource and also under the umbrella of Tanaguru Github account

Have Fun

Tanaguru team