Accessibility

Accessibility is important for users who use screen readers or rely on keyboard-only functionality to ensure they have an equivalent experience to sighted mouse users.

Accessibility best practices

Follow these best practices to implement accessible web applications. These are some of the topics covered in that guide:

• Quick checklist
• Accessible names for screen readers
• Icons
• When to use ARIA

Automated accessibility testing

Uncover accessibility problems and ensure that your features stay accessible over time by implementing automated A11Y tests.

• When to add accessibility tests
• How to add accessibility tests

Other resources

Use these tools and learning resources to improve your web accessibility workflow and skills.

Viewing the browser accessibility tree

• Firefox DevTools guide
• Chrome DevTools guide

Browser extensions

We have two options for Web accessibility testing:

• axe for Firefox
• axe for Chrome

Other links

• The A11Y Project is a good resource for accessibility
• Awesome Accessibility is a compilation of accessibility-related material