RE: accessibility toolbar

Also, the colour contrast of the focus indication in the toolbar violates SC 1.4.11.

There are actually some nice tools in there, like the screen ruler and screen mask, but some don’t always work properly, such as the controls for changing the text and background colours.

We and most of the rest of the accessibility community are generally opposed to tools like this, but at least it’s cheap compared with most others, so it’s not taking away much budget that could be better spent on other things.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


From: Annie Heckel <annieh@onlineada.com>
Sent: 20 May 2020 19:01
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: accessibility toolbar

Even without really investigating the toolbar much, I had to laugh when simply opening it caused the page to create a failure of WCAG 1.4.10: Reflow.

-Annie H.

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:40 AM Char Easter <ceaster@seattletimes.com<mailto:ceaster@seattletimes.com>> wrote:
Any thoughts on this accessibility toolbar? It appears on the site, https://farberwarecookware.com/


The tool is authored by, https://hikeorders.com/accessibility/main-accessibility-features/#accessibility-tools


Thanks,

Char Easter
UX Designer at The Seattle Times
p: 206.464.2945
e: ceaster@seattletimes.com<mailto:ceaster@seattletimes.com>
m: 206.779.2427



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Annie Heckel

Lead Accessibility Auditor
Online ADA<https://onlineada.com/>