An ongoing list of resources to help makers, builders, thinkers, and doers design inclusive experiences for persons with disabilities. Please contact me if you have a suggestion, addition, or correction.
Accessibility Standards
- HTML: The Living Standard
- WCAG
- WCAG Quick Reference
- Understanding WCAG 2.1
- Techniques for WCAG 2.1
- ARIA
- ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG)
- ARIA in HTML
- Using ARIA
- HTML Accessibiliy API Mappings (AAM)
- Accessible Name and Description Computation
Useful resources and references
- HTML5 Accessibility — “This site tests which major browsers accessibly support newish HTML5 features.”
- a11ysupport.io / cania11y.com — ARIA attributes support across screen readers
- This is WCAG 2.1
- WCAG 2.1 Map
Guides & Cheatsheets
Official screen reader user guides
- NVDA User guide. Most read-only webpages are browsed in NVDA using Browse mode.
- JAWS documentation
- Shortcut: JAWS Hotkeys
- Complete guide to Narrator
- Shortcut: Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures
- VoiceOver Guide
- Use VoiceOver to browse webpages on Mac
- Apple VoiceOver Command charts
- Talkback user guides
- Turn on and practice VoiceOver on iPhone
Screen reader keyboard shortcut cheatsheets
- VoiceOver Keyboard Shortcuts on a Mac
- VoiceOver Gestures on iOS
- NVDA Keyboard Shortcuts
- Talkback Gestures on Android
- JAWS Keyboard Shortcuts
- Narrator Keyboard Shortcuts
- Desktop Screen Readers Forms Guide
- Desktop Screen Readers Survival Guide - Basic Keyboard Shortcuts
Checklists
- Custom Control Accessible Development Checklist
- Deque’s Web Accessibility Checklist — includes checklists for components, forms, images, links, multimedia, etc. VERY useful.
- “The Must-Have WCAG 2.1 Checklist”
- The A11y project’s WCAG Checklist
- WebAIM’s WCAG 2 Checklist
- Accessibility Not-Checklist
Auditing and Testing tools
- A comprehensive list of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- A list of JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing
Virtual Machines
Accessibility auditing
- WCAG Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)
- WCAG-EM Report Tool (Generates a standards-first report)
- Eleventy WCAG Reporter (Creates an issues-first report)
HTML validation
Browser extensions & bookmarklets
- ARC Toolkit Extension (Chrome-only )
- WAVE browser extension
- Web Developer Extension
- h123 HTML5 Outliner bookmarklet, cross-browser
- Accessibility Insights for Web
Other