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accessibility-developer-tools

This is a library of accessibility-related testing and utility code.

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.3KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

This is a library of accessibility-related testing and utility code.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-06-29 14:43:53 UTC to 2016-07-26 17:40:22 UTC.

012342015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsJun 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2016

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Jun 20152015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20152015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20162016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20162016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20162016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You are absolutely correct in assuming that having alt-text on the image inside the link is accessible. This is a known bug (https://github.com/Khan/tota11y/issues/1) that comes from upstream (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...) and will hopefully be fixed soon. As for your notes on screen-reader text: you can "hide" it by not actually hiding it, but placing it off the side of the page. This will be picked up by screen-readers and will not cause any positioning issues. We use the following snippet all over Khan Academy. Bootstrap 3 uses it as well. .sr-only { border: 0; clip: rect(0,0,0,0); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; position: absolute; width: 1px; } So I'd like to assure you that your image link is good to g
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o (assuming the alt-text is good!). Sorry for the troubles.
In Tota11y
To echo mkozlows, definitely check out axe-core. They recently open-sourced the tool and it's chock full of great a11y testing. At Khan Academy we use Chrome's Accessibility Developer Tools (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tool...) as part of our testing infrastructure. A few of us also have the browser extension to do some manual testing, which is what tota11y is for. tota11y uses Accessibility Developer Tools internally.
In Tota11y

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