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Toolbox

Welcome to our Digital Accessibility Toolbox! These tools can be used to check the accessibility of your digital content automatically or manually.

Browser Extensions

WAVE – Automatic accessibility checker for websites.

Siteimprove – Single page version of Siteimprove’s website accessibility scanner.

Accessibility Insights for the Web – Tools for quick scans, specific issues, and guides for manual testing. Chrome & Edge.

fonts infos for Chrome – Reports font characteristics such as size, color, family, and style as well as line height and letter spacing.

font infos for Firefox – Reports font characteristics such as size, color, family, and style as well as line height and letter spacing.

WCAG Color Contrast Checker for Chrome – One click scan reports contrast issue and location by highlight and element.

WCAG Color Contrast Checker for FireFox – One click scan reports contrast issue and location by highlight and element.

ColorZilla – Eyedropper tool, palette viewer, gradient generator, and more.

Visual ARIA – Provides a visual display of Aria roles in use on any webpage.

Online

Color Contrast Grid -Input your color palette for automatic contrast ratios with accessibility rating

Siteimprove for UNC – Make a request to add your UNC-Chapel Hill site for assessing and tracking accessibility.

Readable – Scans text using several readability formulas for results by grade level.

WebAIM Color Contrast Checker – Enter Hex codes and check contrast against WCAG guidelines.

Website Accessibility Checker – Enter URL for a quick scan of website code. Results include failed elements, explanations, and solutions.

Periodic Table of Aria Roles – Slightly outdated reference of Aria roles sorted by use case. Choice of sorting by color or pattern. See ARIA 1.2 for a current reference.

WCAG Quick Reference – Includes criteria with descriptions and solutions. To meet UNC Guidelines, filter for Level AA.

W3C Tutorials – Learn best practices for designing and developing websites.

Screen Readers

NVDA – Free for Windows. See NVDA shortcuts for a list of keyboard shortcuts.

JAWS – Windows only. DAO pays for a license so UNC faculty, staff and students can download a free version on their personal machines with a unc.edu email address. See JAWS shortcuts  for a list of keyboard shortcuts.

VoiceOver – For MacOS and iPhone/iPad. See VoiceOver shortcuts for a list of keyboard shortcuts.

Downloads

Color Oracle – Filter that simulates how your content is viewed by different types of colorblindness.

Colour Contrast Analyzer (CCA) – Color contrast checker with eyedropper tool.

Accessibility Insights for the Web End of
Translation Click to Translate text after this point – Find and fix issues in Windows apps.