Introducing New In-Extension Remediation Instructions
With over 10,000 weekly users, the Accessible Web Helper browser extension has already become an integral part of web accessibility workflows around the world. We’ve heard from web agencies, businesses, and independent website builders about how it helps speed up their discovery of accessibility issues on a website — as well as other functionality that they would […]
Expanded Integration Between Accessible Web RAMP and Accessible Web Helper Chrome Extension
Major upgrades are coming to the Accessible Web Helper Chrome extension, including workflow enhancements, improved integration with RAMP, and the ability to create Remediation Tasks directly from the plugin. Users have shared that the Chrome extension is an important part of their accessibility workflow. Based on their feedback, we’ve made major upgrades to consolidate accessibility […]
New Manual Auditing Tab in RAMP
Easily organize manual testing work with the new Manual Auditing tab in RAMP. We’ve set out to make managing manual testing easier with the introduction of a new Manual Auditing tab. Since automated scanning only captures a percentage of accessibility issues, we encourage all users to perform a manual audit to reach true WCAG conformance. […]
New Automated Scanning View for RAMP
We’ve heard your feedback and made some changes to make your favorite features easier than ever to access in RAMP. As a result, you’ll notice some changes to the navigation menu in your website’s RAMP account. There are now separate tabs for managing pages and viewing automated scan data: the “Pages” and “Automated Scanning” tabs, […]
Introducing Accessible Web RAMP Recommended Action Items
RAMP’s new recommendations feature uncovers the most pervasive accessibility issues quickly, makes it easy to turn a recommendation into a task, and automatically closes out tasks once rescanned to verify a fix. Automated page scanning is a great tool to quickly identify accessibility issues on a website. While scanning only identifies some types of issue […]
Why We Score Webpages and the Improvements We’re Making
Our free Website Accessibility Checker and the RAMP platform have scanned and scored millions of web pages and applications. Along with specifying what on a given webpage doesn’t conform to WCAG standards, Accessible Web’s RAMP platform offers a numerical score to help our users prioritize their efforts and document progress over time. RAMP already makes […]
Meet Accessible Web RAMP
Accessible Web Console is now named Accessible Web RAMP. We’re excited to introduce RAMP alongside an expanded ecosystem of accessibility tools, educational courses, and services to help organizations of all sizes RAMP up to accessibility. RAMP Up to a Fully Accessible Future for Accessible Web Ramps didn’t become commonplace in architectural design and construction planning […]
Shopify and Web Accessibility
Over the last few years, Shopify responded to the wave of accessibility lawsuits, helping eCommerce customers solve accessibility issues. Shopify provides Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) for many of its products, including its popular Debut theme and Checkout interface. Shopify is accessible right out of the box. But, the responsibility for maintaining accessibility shifts to you […]
Colour Contrast Analyser – a new tool to analyze color contrast of webpages
Accessibility Resource Initiative The Paciello Group released a PC & Mac tool to analyze color contrast of webpages and desktop applications. New tool to analyze color contrast of Webpages and Apps Called the Colour Contrast Analyser, this tool helps you determine the legibility of text and contrast levels of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators. Allowing you to […]