What Tools Do You Use To Make Your Products More Accessible?

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Accessibility is important in product development because it advocates for the creation of products that can be used by people of all abilities. There are a huge amount of tools to help test accessibility across different platforms for a range of abilities, whether they be related to vision, hearing, cognition, speech, and/or mobility. While creating a product that meets accessibility guidelines, we must continually test different frameworks through a variety of resources to create the most inclusive design.

So, my question for you all is: what resources, websites, books, and other tools have you used to test and improve the accessibility of your products?

Comments

[Rachel Fazio]

Me again (lol), my most constantly used accessibility tool is definitely a contrast checker for colors! My fav is the standard

webaim.org

, but I also use

Coolors - The super fast color palettes generator!

Generate or browse beautiful color combinations for your designs.

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to help me source colors when I am feeling super stuck about a color theme!

[Tobias Nickel]

axe core is pretty good

[Rachel Fazio]

Love this! Thank you for sharing

[Porterfield]

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