Reviews & Comments of axe DevTools - Web Accessibility Testing chrome extension

This was a great extension to use, they have since changed it to just push the paid version. If you are not looking to pay for the extension the free version offers nothing.

This tool used to be great, now it's it's a scam. Doesn't actually scan anything. Instead, wants you to subscribe to a 7-day trial and collect your personal information or subscribe to their pro version to unlock anything remotely useful. "Accessibility is for everyone," right?

it didn't give me anything other than attempts to upsell to Pro version right away

Works great! However axe DevTools does not use the latest axe-core ver. It uses 4.4.2 when the latest available ver is 4.6.1. Are there any plans to update to the latest ver?

Tried a test. Immediately popped up a notification to upgrade to a pro-version.

Best accessibility tool to check accessibility issues with zero false positives

Good extension, but seems to recently have switched to a paid subscription after an initial trial, and the free version of the extension only displays 50% of the accessibility issues discovered (which is a bit pointless if you're wanting to perform a worthwhile audit).

You can't change to WCAG 2.1 AA and it tests against AAA which is not what you always need. You should have flexibility to test against any WCAG level. Also you should be able to export the results using this extension. They scare you for no reason. You mostly need AA compliance and not AAA

Worthless, doesn't work at all

When installing the popup warning says "It can read and change all your data on all websites".

Pages are loading very slow when the extension is enabled, even if Chrome DEV Tools is closed.

This is the tool I recommend to people who ask me for an automated testing tool. I've been using it consistently for a long while now and trust it (almost) implicitly.

Almost useless. the lighthouse does the work better.

Superb tool.

Best accessibility tool - zero false positives means I do not waste my time

This tool is something I use every day. Easy to use, clear and actionable reporting so that I know what's wrong, where it's wrong, and how to fix it. Keep it up Deque!

Not visible in last chrome 83.0.4103.116

An awesome accessibility testing tool. Works beautifully on local files as well. Great job!

Funciona bastante bien, pese a que no acaba de apurar en muchos sites, estéticamente está bastante mejor que las de la competencia y tiene margen de mejora. Funciona bien.

Good insights, however it crashes easily 1/3 of the time, even freezing up the Chrome tab so I can't close it.

The extension is working with axe-core 3.2.2, but I use the selenium driver which uses 3.3.0 - those mismatches make it so in testing and production we get different errors.

Hi, everyone. I have question about report. Is there a function to upload a report to my computer? Thanks.

Fantastic tool!

works great, my team uses the javascript api to automate accessibility testing and this extension while manually fixing issues.

The best tool that I have found

Quick and easy. Detects many accessibility issues and provides information about the violated rule.

This tool has become indispensable in my work. Thank you.

While this tool provides some overall good value at a basic level, it's biggest weakness/limitation is that it only analyzes static content. This is very prohibitive in this day/age where nearly all sites are dynamic. Not being able to test actions and dynamic content on a page is a big disappointment as well as not traversing an entire site. Earlier Fireeyes versions allowed it but functionality has been removed over time.

Trying this after watching Marcy Sutton's talk at Generate NY. Looks really useful.

A great tool. Noticing that it is always active though, even if not using the inspector in Chrome. It would be nice if it only ran when hitting the "analyze" button. This causes some strange javascript issues when enabled and simply browsing around.

Great plug in with no false positives - so no wasted time chasing down "non bugs".

This tool is good for multiple reasons! 1. Works with intranet sites that other checkers don't have access too. 2. Usable by engineers because it will show the html for each item and provide suggestions. 3. Usable by non-engineers because it does highlights.

Definitely a nice addition to the space for accessibility testing, but is incorrectly detecting colors used for color contrast ratios.

Great detection on everything *but* it throws tons of false positives for color contrast issues. I'm not sure how it's pulling foreground and background color values for the elements it flags, but one or both tend to be wrong enough for me to ignore the color contrast violations altogether.

This is my goto plugin for automated ADA tests. It's clean and doesn't return the false positives that some other plugins spit out. This helps me and my teams focus on the real issues.

aXe is an excellent automated accessibility testing tool that does not report false positive issues that are not real accessibility problems. I use aXe in Chrome Canary, Firefox, and also in Safari through the aXe JavaScript library in the Console.

Great tool for showing real WCAG failures. Excellent support materials that explain how each rule works, how to fix the problem and other helpful resources for learning.

Very handy and concise. Unlike some other tools that repeat every instance of an error, this tool groups the errors in its report.

It is a great accessibility tool. It is easy to find accessibility relevant issues for website.

This is a great utility, but for an accessibility related plugin its a shame it doesn't work with chrome debugger's dark mode :(

Trying to find out how to export the analysis data... Then surely I will be changing my rating to 5 stars!

Awesome, easy to use, clear results, a great improvement over other tools. Very excited to see what future features come.