AInspector for WCAG Evaluation and Headings, Landmarks and Links Browser Extensions

AInspector for WCAG Evaluation 4.0 is an open-source tool that has been redesigned to work on Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers .  The browser extension helps people learn and understand web standards for accessibility, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) and the ARIA in HTML specifications to ensure web resources are accessible to people with disabilities.  The OpenA11y evaluation library used by AInspector has been updated to support the latest W3C standards and a number of bugs have been identified and fixed.

One of the ways AInspector helps people learn about accessibility is by making accessibility rule requirements the primary feature of the user interface, showing the results of groups or rules organized by WCAG Guidelines or Rule Categories.  Rule Categories are groups of rules with labels more familiar to web developers, for example Form Controls, Images and Headings. Developers and quality assurance testers can inspect down to the element level and highlight individual elements for their accessibility features and issues.  Additional element level information is available for color contrast rules and detailed table information for table related rules.  JSON and CSV export formats have been updated to improve consistency of data formats.  

The Headings, Landmarks and Links 1.1 is a new open-source browser extension that provides a side panel to view the headings, landmark regions and links on a web page. It can be used to verify the proper use of headings and landmarks in identifying the layout and structure of a web page and testing links to see if the link text provides a good description of the target of the link.  The extension can be useful to everyone to identify the important content of a web page without having to scroll through the entire page.  The extension uses the OpenA11y Evaluation Library to collect information about on the page title, headers, landmarks and links for viewing in the side panel.