Welcome to our Digital Accessibility Toolbox! These tools can be used to check the accessibility of your digital content automatically or manually.
Whole website evaluation
Siteimprove can help you gain accessibility insights. The Digital Accessibility Office can set your website up to be scanned on a regular cycle and give your site admins access to the dashboard. Other tools that can provide limited automatic checks of your website’s accessibility conformance include the WAVE and Accessibility Insights browser extensions and the Website Accessibility Checker
Captions and transcripts
Add accurate captions to your recordings with 3Play and Panopto. The Digital Accessibility Office can help you navigate both outsourced manual and automated captioning and transcription options to help with your prerecorded content. Remember: all prerecorded materials (videos, podcast, etc.) must include at least one of these options. Please contact the Digital Accessibility Office for Panopto training or 3Play transcription rates.
PDF remediation
You can edit one or several PDFs with Equidox. Using machine learning to detect issues, Equidox convert your PDFs into digitally accessible documents including automatic labeling of links, images, and tables. Equidox also helps with the organization of headings and lists. You can automate this process and apply it to many files at once with batch processing. Contact the Digital Accessibility Office for Equidox onboarding or take a PDF remediation training.
Browser extensions
WAVE – Automatic accessibility checker for websites.
Siteimprove – Single page version of Siteimprove’s website accessibility scanner.
Accessibility Insights for the Web – Tools for quick scans, specific issues and guides for manual testing. Chrome and Edge.
fonts infos for Chrome – Reports font characteristics such as size, color, family and style as well as line height and letter spacing.
font infos for Firefox – Reports font characteristics such as size, color, family and style as well as line height and letter spacing.
WCAG Color Contrast Checker for Chrome – One click scan reports contrast issue and location by highlight and element.
WCAG Color Contrast Checker for FireFox – One click scan reports contrast issue and location by highlight and element.
ColorZilla – Eyedropper tool, palette viewer, gradient generator and more.
Visual ARIA – Provides a visual display of Aria roles in use on any webpage.
Online
Color Contrast Grid – Input your color palette for automatic contrast ratios with accessibility rating
Siteimprove for UNC – Request to add your UNC-Chapel Hill site for assessing and tracking accessibility.
Readable – Scans text using several readability formulas for results by grade level.
WebAIM Color Contrast Checker – Enter hex codes and check contrast against WCAG guidelines.
Website Accessibility Checker – Enter URL for a quick scan of website code. Results include failed elements, explanations and solutions.
Periodic Table of Aria Roles – Slightly outdated reference of Aria roles sorted by use case. Choice of sorting by color or pattern. See ARIA 1.2 for a current reference.
WCAG Quick Reference – Includes criteria with descriptions and solutions. To meet UNC Guidelines, filter for Level AA.
W3C Tutorials – Learn best practices for designing and developing websites.
Screen readers
NVDA – Free for Windows. See NVDA shortcuts for a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Fusion (JAWS & ZoomText) – Windows only. DAO pays for a license so UNC faculty, staff and students can download a free version on their personal machines with a unc.edu email address. See JAWS shortcuts for a list of keyboard shortcuts.
VoiceOver – For MacOS and iPhone/iPad. See VoiceOver shortcuts for a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Downloads
Color Oracle – Filter that simulates how your content would be viewed by people with different types of colorblindness.
Color Contrast Analyzer (CCA) – Color contrast checker with eyedropper tool.
Accessibility Insights for the Web – Find and fix issues in Windows apps.