Reviews & Comments of WAVE Evaluation Tool chrome extension

This does not work. I was unable to highlight anything after making sure it was enabled with permissions, and trying it in both an updated Chrome and Edge browser separately. Nothing gets highlighted or saved, even on a Google search page.

I added a bunch of similar extensions and none of them worked properly, or they only provided some info but required you to sign up to get the "full" experience. But this one is fantastic and provides all the details I need in an easy to understand layout. It finds stuff that other extensions missed, and it's quick and doesn't slow down the browser. Being able to toggle between showing the styles or hiding them is a nice touch. My only issue is that by using this extension, I give them permission to read my browser history. What on earth do they need that for? That's a bit of a concern.

It's a pretty useful tool, but there are some annoyances that make it hard to work with: 1) On the details pane you can check and uncheck the type of errors/warnings to show, we are doing our first round of testing an improvements and so want to focus on just Errors/Contrast Errors. But these settings do not persist, each page it's open extension, details tab, uncheck all these warning/aria sections.... allow these settings to persist please! 2) It's static. We have a React JS UI. The page is changing as the user uses it, the extension however only looks at the page at the point the extension loads. So you have to turn it off, wait for the page to reload, make sure its back at the new state you want it, and then turn it back on.... Just takes far too long. 3) It messes up styles, things get shifted off the page which makes it difficult to see certain problems

Slow, old, with a lot of issues. It's time to update and improve this tool.

Great tool. Thank you for providing such a useful tool for accessibility

Used this to update and ensure accessibility for hundreds of sites.

Can't seem to get it to work on the latest version of chrome :(

Fácil de usar y con reportes detallados.

This used to work for local html files. It no longer does? Edit: You need to enable file access in the extension settings. This is an extremely helpful tool.

The wave results sits over part of the web page being assessed and therefore any errors on the page are hidden by the results. Desaturate page resizes the page to fit next to the wave results which is great and the normal view should do the same.

Useful tool, and at an unbeatable price point of 'free'. But there's no way to output errors - even a raw txt file with error type and the line of code would be fine, not looking for anything fancy. UI is tucked off to one side, so once you have more than a handful of errors it's very easy to get lost in a sea of repetitive and small error indicators. Crashes Chrome not infrequently when making use of the Code view with styles turned on.

Not a good tool. The UI is poor and confusing. The results can sometimes overlay the page content makin impossible to find the problem. It does not refresh/reassess the page when you navigate thru the websites.

It's great but it misses a very important feature: The ability to simply rerun the accessiblity check without having to reload the full web app. It becomes very cumbersome to test all combinations of your app state when you have to reload the web app every time you want to rerun a test.. It would be nice if the sidebar simply had a "RECHECK" button.

According to https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html , an inactive button has no contrast requirement, but the tool shows a Very Low Contrast error in an inactive button in my Web site. This appears to be an error in this Chrome extension.

This is great, I found it when I was blocked from their website due to limits, I didn't know this existed Its much faster than using their website. The only issue I have, which would gain it 5 stars if this was addressed, is when you navigate to a new page or refresh the page the tool is not enabled again, you have to click the plugin icon every time, so it can be annoying. Ideally it should have an enable permanent feature so it will stay active and check pages as you navigate a site or refresh pages. That would be ideal. Thanks

Room for improvement. Very annoying that every page that gets validated you have to deselect all of the valid aspects. When this is turned off it should remain off. -- We need to know what to fix, not what's already good.

This app has recently been updated and I have to say that it has brought massive improvements in the UX and performance of the tool. It's much more impressive than it was a year or so ago, and it has a lot more features packed in. It's important to note that genuine accessibility is not just a checkbox- making your site useful without javascript is not a trivial task, and really has to be done with a human touch. However this tool is an excellent first step in pointing out the basics. Developers note, sometimes things like debug overlays (like django/flask ones) can get warnings flagged and hidden which makes them sometimes hard to find- but there's nothing this tool can do about that- it's inspecting the entire window.

Recently I have used many different accessibility checkers, all are useful but many are not efficient to use. Wave shows me clearly what the issues are, shows me markers visually on my own page and provides a clear description of the issue and what to do about it.

Where did the ability to filter down to WCAG AA 2.0 go? What standard is the new redesign using as the "default"?

The new update is really useful. It breaks the page layout less than the old version, explains what's wrong - WHY it's important and how to fix it. Thank you.

Something JUST broke the extension, we use it daily at work here, and today I went to use it and its now broken

The update looks so much nicer, good job! I ran into an issue where I needed to test locally and couldn't use my normal tools, and after finding this Wave plugin I don't need to any more!

Clunky; and nearly always points out non-issues with very little direction on where they are originating. You would only use this if you are a QA person for basic HTML and you need to get by not knowing any code at all.

This proved to be a very handy tool for assessing web accessibility but I wish I knew to what standard it was being measured... WCAG 2.0? A? AA? If that was added, it would be extremely helpful. Bonus points if we could select the level at which we tested.

Is WAVE up to date with WCAG 2.1?

A lot of false positives.

It is a powerful and useful tool for sure. It takes a little time to figure out the interface and be able to determine what it is telling you. It also slows down the browser quite a bit when it is in use. But again, it is very in depth and beneficial when testing a11y. Give it a try and see if it's abundant information is worth the learning curve and performance slowdown.

This is a great tool. My only suggestion is that you give us a way to download the results. I use this tool for sites that take human interaction to navigate the site where I can't use my automated tool. I would love to be able to download the results to send to my IT team.

Confusing user interface, and shows some webpages as nothing more than raw HTML when trying to evaluate, even if the page follows W3 spec immaculately.

Continues to work great when your site was not planned with accessibility in mind. The contrast errors are sometimes off when trying to edit in the tool, but not wrong. Tried aXe extension and it broke this tool. Stay away from aXe. Stick with Wave!!!

It would be great if it could display the webpage as it would actually by understood by a screen reader, for example removing all elements with aria-hidden="true". I can only get it to mark them, but that's not quite the same.

Very helpful for checking AA compliance

Awesome tool.

awesome tool! used for our company website.

I really like this one the first minute I use it. I'm improving my website SEO after I evaluate it from online evaluators. But the problem is I wanted to evaluate the progress I'm making at Development environment. So this tool is perfect for that. I would give 5/5 +1 (bonus)!

I find this tool amazing for quickly accessing the quality and accessibility of my websites. It's easy to make sure inputs are correctly labelled, images have alt text, and headings are ordered logically. Good HTML structure benefits everyone!

Overall good enhanced version tool over previous Firefox extension. However even with 'allow access to file URLs' the current extension doesn't seem to allow testing of local file system pages (at least on Windows) If that problem was fixed this extension would be 5 stars for me.

More Information link goes nowhere. The count of errors, warnings etc. is missing (or shows ?) For tags on the right border of the page the balloon is not entirely visible. The Wave panel covers the left part of the page. Its title can be drag but no drop target! Too many tags: the cover the objects described to the extent that they go unusable! Documentation (on Tabindex. for example) is obsolete! I wonder how many others?!

Doesn't seem to do anything. Button turns green and nothing at all happens...

awesome

I tried using this to evaluate a site I built locally and it didn't do anything. I'm trying to evaluate pages I build for clients before uploading them to a server.

Useful tool. Would like to be able to print out a report that I can use when consulting with people about accessibility issues on their site.

Better than Accessibility Developer Tools.

So far the best and most complete tool I found until now. However, use common sense in addition to the tool, e.g. do a contrast check with a different tool for more detailed information.

awesome

Very helpful. I use it daily.

It seems to include it's overlay into the validation. For example, there appears to be two(2) missing form labels that were not visible until you activate the "code" tab at the bottom, the two(2) label errors were a result of another extension's code it injected into the page.

I think this a very useful and elegant tool for a11y testing. I have been using the WAVE plugin for FF for years, and think I will switch. Great job, and much appreciated. Kudos to the WebAIM team.

Does a decent job, but with no export feature it is only half useful. I know that reports can be purchased for credits, but the reports provided is not even close or as accurate as the errors shown by the tool bar. Is there any other plugin which supports exporting? (Tried Fireeyes, but was not too impressed).

Awesome! That's a crazy tool. The worries are now over that the site is publicly available or not. Really amazing!

As a Web Developer this is the best browser based tool I can use to check for WCAG. Thank you!

It's a very good tool.

Very nice tool. Gives a few helpful hints on accessibilities and identifies what has aria attributes and what does not. Would recommend if needing to be accessible.

It's a very good Tool. Thanks for it. Rewarded work you have in it.

Upon running a check on various websites, the WAVE extension includes in its report errors, alerts, features, etc. One thing I noticed that happens on every site I've checked so far is a false error. It consistently reports 1 Error: "1 X Missing alternative text" when that is not the case in any of the sites. I'll update my rating when the issue is resolved.