Re:Show HN: MAWD – Simple web accessibility testing for deve...
by darekkay on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:13AM
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Thumbs up for making the web more accessible! I was fortunate to work on a project with a WCAG AA requirement for the last 1.5 years, so I can only imagine how overwhelming is must be for people outside this area to make their sites accessible.
> MAWD is designed to pick up 100% of the issues with a site, but she needs your help to do it.
> 4 WCAG criteria fully tested. 22 different tests
There are 4 WCAG principles with 12-13 guidlines, each having at least one success criteria. There are about 60 success criteria, so 22 different tests are far from 100%. I've also encountered many subjective decisions and screen reader quirks. It's probably much better than fully-automated tools (like pa11y or axe), but it still takes a lot of experience to find and fix all accessibility issues. I suggest lowering the "100%" claim.
> MAWD is designed to pick up 100% of the issues with a site, but she needs your help to do it.
> 4 WCAG criteria fully tested. 22 different tests
There are 4 WCAG principles with 12-13 guidlines, each having at least one success criteria. There are about 60 success criteria, so 22 different tests are far from 100%. I've also encountered many subjective decisions and screen reader quirks. It's probably much better than fully-automated tools (like pa11y or axe), but it still takes a lot of experience to find and fix all accessibility issues. I suggest lowering the "100%" claim.