Automated testing
Software that scans a page for accessibility failures it can detect, such as missing alt text or low contrast.
Automated testing runs a tool over a page to find the failures a program can detect: missing alt text, missing form labels, low contrast, empty links and buttons, a missing page language, broken ARIA. Tools like this run in a browser extension, in a developer’s test suite on every deploy, or across a whole site on a schedule. The WebAIM Million uses one to check a million home pages a year.
Automated tests are fast, cheap, and worth running on every change, and they are a fraction of the picture. A tool can see that an image has alt text but not whether the text is useful, and it cannot tell whether a checkout works with a screen reader. The W3C is plain that no tool alone can determine whether a site meets accessibility standards.
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