Cauditor

Cauditor: Open-Source Web Accessibility Testing Tool

Analyze web pages and detect accessibility issues to build accessible websites compliant with WCAG 2.1, including missing alt text, poor color contrast, inaccessible forms, and more.

What is Cauditor?

Cauditor is an automated web accessibility testing tool used to detect accessibility issues in web pages and applications. It is an open-source tool available for free use and contributions on GitHub.

Cauditor analyzes web pages against accessibility standards and guidelines such as WCAG 2.1 to identify issues that could prevent use by people with disabilities. Some examples of the types of issues Cauditor can detect include:

• Missing alternative text for images
• Inaccessible web forms and form elements
• Insufficient color contrast ratios
• Empty or incorrect document language and titles
• Lack of ARIA landmarks for screen reader navigation
• Other code issues that pose barriers to user interaction

By scanning web pages with Cauditor, developers can proactively find and fix accessibility issues during the design and development process. This helps ensure websites and web apps are usable and provide equal access to all users, including those with impairments related to vision, hearing, mobility, cognition, and more.

Cauditor generates detailed reports on detected issues, with references to the specific accessibility guidelines and success criteria that have not been met. Developers can use these reports to guide remediation of accessibility barriers in their projects.

As an open source tool, Cauditor is free for anyone to use, download, and modify. Contributors are welcome to help improve Cauditor's scope and accuracy in detecting accessibility issues across different types of websites and complex web applications.

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