







WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools WAVE ® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate ...
Introduction Contrast and color use are vital to accessibility. Users, including users with visual disabilities, must be able to perceive content on the page. There is a great deal of fine print and complexity within the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 that can easily confuse web content creators and web accessibility evaluators. This article pulls together the terms and ...
WAVE Browser Extensions The WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge extensions allows you to evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within your browser. Because the extension runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private and secure accessibility reporting. The extension can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically ...
This relatively simple contrast checker: allows you to enter or select foreground and background colors provides functionality to lighten or darken the colors slightly to find acceptable contrast levels displays the contrast ratio based on the WCAG 2.0 luminosity formula indicates if the colors pass the WCAG 2.0 Level AA and Level AAA requirements for normal text and large text. shows a sample ...
WCAG 2.0 color requirements WCAG 2.0 requires that the foreground and background colors have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio at Level AA and a 7:1 contrast ratio at Level AAA. You can use our contrast checker tool to determine what the ratio is between any foreground and background color. WCAG 2.0 also requires (at Level A) that color not be used as the sole method of conveying content or ...
Link Contrast Checker Home > Resources > Link Contrast Checker Link Color Please enter a valid hex triplet, or use the color picker. Hex color picker
WebAIM Contrast Checker WebAIM offers an online contrast checkerthat will present the contrast difference between two colors, and will help you identify a color that meets the desired level of contrast. To use our contrast checker, enter Hex color values in the Foreground Colorand Background Colorfields.
Past Projects Steppingstones Project on Web Accessibility and Cognitive Disabilities in Education Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Literature Review Overview of Steppingstones Cognitive Research WASP Accessibility Task Force CaptionCaster development NCRTM & Moodle Accessibility Project XUL Accessibility Brigham and Women's Hospital Kessler Library YES Project PowerPay Accent Tool ...
Provide Good Contrast Be especially careful with shades of orange, yellow, and light gray. Check your contrast levels with our color contrast checker. Use True Text Instead of Images of Text True text enlarges better, loads faster, and is easier to translate and customize. Use Adequate Font Size Small text is difficult for all users to see.







