Column: Do Accessibility Checkers have a place in QA?

*​​The following is part of a column posted on the Auto-WCAG website. ​Feel
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There are many great tools on the market that can check the accessibility
of web pages. The Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List is a great
resource to find checkers for different types of content. Many of them
focus on testing specific aspects of accessibility, such as color contrast
or parsing. But some have a broader scope and will check many different
aspects  and report the conformance to WCAG success criteria.

I encourage
​all ​
web professionals to use an accessibility checker in their daily work. But
as an accessibility auditor with 8 years of experience, I must confess that
I don’t use any of these checkers myself. To test HTML pages, the only
tools I use are a DOM inspector, a color analyzer and a validator. So why
the difference?

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at: ​​https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/2015/04/23/accessibility-checkers-in-qa/
<https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/2015/04/23/accessibility-checkers-in-qa/>​​*


Regards,

Wilco Fiers
Accessibility Foundation NL​