Verify your website accessibility

Web accessibility is the practice of ensuring that your website is interactive and accessible to even people with disabilities. Many countries provide laws protecting the rights of disabled persons, therefore it becomes really important to design and develop the website in compliance with those laws and follow web accessibility as de-facto.

The blog helps to test your web accessibility.

1. Open chrome browser and browse any website. Open developer tools and click on Audit tab. Scroll to Audits section and check the 'Accessibility' option.

Web accessibility check in Chrome browser

2. Once you click on 'Run audits' button, you will see a message(as shown below). Don't worry, auditing has started.

Starting auditing of website

3. Once audit is completed, it will generate audit report(as shown below)

Audit report for web accessibility

Have a great day !!

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