Wave accessibility testing tool

 I have been using the 'Wave' accessibility testing tool from 'webaim.org'.


This tool is more thorough than 'Lighthouse'.


So far 'Wave' has told me about:


    - bad colour contrast that 'Lighthouse' had missed

    - too long text of the 'alt' attribute of images

    - the same links being repeated near to one another, making screen readers unecessarily repeat the link text

    - text of a link being too general: 'more details' 

    - badly forcing the text of links to be underlined


'Wave' is a uiversity project supported by big tech companies and the U.S. government.


There are more tips at: bbingo.xyz/t

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