Name | Experte Accessibility Checker |
Product Description | One of the best ways to find out how accessible your website is, is to ensure that anyone, even the visually impaired, can make full use of your website. |
Availability | Available on the Experte Website. |
Key Features | · This tool checks out all the individual pages (or at least up to 500) on your website automatically so you don’t have to suffer the faff of individually copying and pasting each URL to check out the overall accessibility.
· It assesses 41 features of your website over 8 different categories to ensure your website is reaching its full accessible potential. These include: o Ensuring your sites navigation is ship shape and easy to negotiate o Checking your individual HTMLs are descriptive and helpful for website exploration. o Looking at the names and labels of things like buttons and images to make sure they have apt and appropriate descriptions. o Testing the compatibility of tables and lists to check compatibility with Screen Reader software. o Performing colour contrasts analyses on your website to confirm visuals are easily distinguishable. o Scanning Video and Audio subtitles and descriptions checking for correct markups. o Reviewing the nationality of your site to see if a specific language has been specified to readers before they begin to read it. |
Prices and Plans | It’s absolutely free! Plus, they have loads of other awesome online software available. |
Biggest Pro | Unlike other tools, it covers most of your website at once! A great time saver if ever there was one. |
Biggest Con | That it only goes up to 500 pages! But if you’re a small or new business this shouldn’t be a problem! And once you get into the swing of refining your website features so it is accessible, it becomes more of a habit anyway, so you’ll need to review it less. |
If you want to learn more about making your website accessible then read our article: 7 Ways to Make Your Website Accessible.
What’s great about spending time on the accessibility of your site is that a lot of the techniques will also boost your SEO, so it’s a double win for all your time and effort!