Accessibility Insights for Web

Accessibility Insights for Web

Accessibility Insights for Web helps developers quickly find and fix accessibility issues.

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What is Accessibility Insights for Web?

Accessibility Insights for Web is an Edge add-on by Microsoft Corporation. This add-on has 51,023 weekly active users and a good user rating of 4.80. The latest version, 2.37.3, was updated a month ago.

Stats
Stats date:
Rating: 4.80 (27)
Version: 2.37.3 (Last updated: 2023-02-11)
Creation date: 2022-01-31
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • notifications
  • scripting
  • storage
  • tabs
  • webNavigation
  • activeTab
Size: 5.85M
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
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Accessibility Insights for Web
Accessibility Insights for Web (v2.37.3)
30 93,583
Not available on Firefox
Summary
Accessibility Insights for Web is a browser extension that helps developers find and fix accessibility issues in web apps and sites.

The tool supports two primary scenarios:

FastPass is a lightweight, two-step process that helps developers identify common, high-impact accessibility issues in less than five minutes.
Automated checks - the tool automatically checks for compliance with approximately 50 accessibility requirements.
Tab stops - the tool provides clear instructions and a visual helper that makes it easy to identify critical accessibility issues related to keyboard access, such as missing tab stops, keyboard traps, and incorrect tab order.

Assessment allows anyone with HTML skills to verify that a web app or web site is compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.
Automated checks - the tool automatically checks for compliance with approximately 50 accessibility requirements.
Manual tests - the tool provides step-by-step instructions, examples, and how-to-fix guidance for approximately 20 tests; many tests are "assisted", which means that the tool identifies the test instances or provides a visual helper.

Accessibility Insights for Web requires Microsoft Edge Insider version 75 or later.
Safety
Risk impact

Accessibility Insights for Web requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Accessibility Insights for Web if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

Accessibility Insights for Web is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood measures the probability that an Edge add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Edge add-on reputation on Edge Add-on Store, the amount of time the Edge add-on has been around, and other signals about the Edge add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing an Edge add-on, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.

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User reviews
It is a good extension
by Kanchan, 2021-10-13

Very helpful evaluation tool for accessibility. I appreciate the fact it has different levels of test to help find the issues that can be quickly fixed and then more in-depth tests. The reports are easy to read with good detail and can be exported for offline reference. It has really helped me understand what to look for as I develop web sites to address common problems early. Highly recommend!
by Gordon, 2021-04-22

Nice work Devs
by Shivam, 2021-03-31
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