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Would you use a real-time analyzer to make sure your website is usable to people with disabilities (WCAG 2.1 Compliance)?

Would you use a JS plugin that you could add to your website to flag any elements of your website that are not accessible for visitors with visual, audio, motor or sensory disabilities?

For our careers page hosting product at NextWave Hire I'm working with some customers who require us to update their pages to be WCAG 2.1 compliant, and I'm realizing how much goes into making a website accessible--from the obvious alt-text on images, to the less intuitive alternatives for audio and video content, to even the types of animations and contrast ratios used. I even learned that you need to have keyboard alternatives for navigation.

There are a lot of single-use WCAG compliance checking websites out there that you can run your code against once, but I'm realizing that as frequently as we update the careers pages for our clients, we may unknowingly forget to check it after a future update. So I'm realizing that a JS plugin that always checks the page on page load would be helpful and I'm in the process of building that for our own product.

Just trying to gauge how helpful a standalone product like this would be for others!

on January 28, 2020
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    Anything that helps make the web more accessible has my vote.

    Having said that. Maybe a browser extension is more useful, assuming you only need this during development?

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      Thanks for the suggestion! I also thought about the browser extension, but I realized with the frequency with which we're replacing images and such, that I might forget to run the browser extension on it too.

      Maybe this isn't a persistent problem for product landing pages which don't really get updated (beyond text) a whole lot after development. But maybe it's more of a silent problem for bloggers and people who are pushing out content on a regular basis.

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      Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'll keep you posted as this comes to fruition.