Reviews & Comments of Siteimprove Accessibility Checker chrome extension
From May 8th, 2021 to January 10th, 2023, 44% user give 5-star rating, 11% user give 4-star rating, 11% user give 3-star rating, 22% user give 2-star rating, 11% user give 1-star rating. for Siteimprove Accessibility Checker chrome extension.
Reviews of siteimprove accessibility checker:
I really liked v1.x but I have noticed that v2 has obvious errors and things it is not finding in pages. It is beyond the rules being refined in this version. One example that made me take notice was a page that had dark grey text on a darker grey background that was obviously a contrast fail, followed by a dark blue "Read more" link that also was an obvious fail. The extension only called out the grey on grey and didn't seem to notice the blue on grey fail in an anchor adjacent to the grey text for any issues. When manually checked the contrast was below the 4.5 ratio so failed AA and AAA contrast guidelines, possibly also AA and AAA Link Purpose. Finding these errors in the extension has shown me it is not as reliable as the previous version at finding issues. Be careful if you are using it to scan your site as it could be missing obvious fails.
Hello, I can't find documentation if this plug-in works at checking ADA accessibility for mobile devices if I use the plugin while using the developer tools (Responsive Views) on a Chrome browser. It's been frustrating find information about this.
I love that this exists! As a UX designer I am always looking for quick simple ways to check accessibility and this does the trick! Couldn't recommend it enough.
Great extension. It helped to make rough initial assessment of our website.
It really helps me to check accessibility of components as I build my client's sites. Quick and easy.
This used to be my favorite checker. Happily would've given 5 stars. Now... -1 star for no more side panel. -1 star for being colossally slow to check sites. Tested several. I closed after 15 seconds of getting no details. Used to be near instantaneous results. -1 star for having to even deduct stars in the first place.
Version 1 would retain your settings, v2 has to be rebuilt for every use. As mentioned earlier, 2.4.7 Focus Visible and 2.4.4 Link Purpose are not being discovered in v2.
Unfortunately version 2.0 doesn't seem to return all the same errors that my coworkers with v127 see. Specifically v2 is not returning errors about 2.4.7 Focus Visible and 2.4.4 Link Purpose on a page where my coworkers see those errors using the older version of the extension.
I really like the extension because it is helping a lot to optimize sites with WCAG norms so a broader audience is able to surf the web. But for me it also worked better as a sidebar of the page as we had in the previous version. What about a configuration switch in the settings so we as end-users can decide if we want it as sidebar or on a separate page?