Tools for accessible websites

Three tools are free and need no sign-up. On top of that come the credit-based tools: Libration Media for captions and transcripts, Libration Docs for accessible PDF documents. Checking costs nothing there; you pay for the processing.

Free, no sign-up

With credit

What automated testing can do – and what it cannotAutomated checks cover roughly 30 to 40 per cent of the WCAG criteria. They reliably find missing alternative texts, broken heading levels or weak contrast. Whether an interaction makes sense, or whether an alternative text describes the right thing, is still a human decision.