Website Checking Tools » History » Version 1
Sarah Zaranek, 07/15/2022 02:25 PM
| 1 | 1 | Sarah Zaranek | h1. Website Checking Tools |
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| 3 | h2. Responsiveness/mobile |
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| 5 | Firefox Responsive Design Mode (CTRL + SHIFT + M shortcut on linux) |
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| 6 | Resize the window to really small (mobile, or xs- in bootstrap, then increase a little to about 400-800 px when the medium viewport must trigger, or md I think in bootstrap) |
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| 8 | h2. Accessibility |
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| 10 | WAVE - https://wave.webaim.org/ |
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| 11 | Firefox - Right click anywhere on the screen and "Inspect Accessibility Properties" |
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| 12 | Accessi - https://www.accessi.org/ |
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| 13 | pa11y.org - https://pa11y.org/ |
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| 14 | For contrast, my favorite is squinting my eyes… similar to how you can do to simplify colors in a painting… I find that when the text color fades and almost disappears, that's normally because of bad contrast, and users with disabilities/diseases that cause blurred vision probably won't be comfortable reading it (I did that for Arvados.org and noticed some text that was hard to read, before testing with WAVE & accessi :joy: I just try never let anyone see me doing it) - https://www.sightsize.com/the-value-of-squinting/ |
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| 15 | ORCA Linux screen reader - I find that these automated reports are useful for auditing, but for really confirm if a site is accessible, the best is always to ask a person with a disability to test it, or use a screen reader. Windows has a screen reader that's a lot better than ORCA. |
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| 17 | Performance |
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| 19 | Chrome Lighthouse - https://developer.chrome.com/blog/lighthouse-load-performance/ |
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| 21 | Link Check: |
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| 23 | W3C Link Checker - https://validator.w3.org/checklink |
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| 25 | Typos & Grammar |
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| 27 | WebStorm (it has a "Inspect" feature that uses a dictionary for typos, and a mix of custom language-rules & LanguageTools for Grammar). Not perfect, and I only run it when I have the code (I didn't use it for Arvados.org) |
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| 29 | SEO |
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| 31 | These two pages recommended by google, for schema.org tags - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data (e.g. https://validator.schema.org/#url=arvados.org) |
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| 33 | JS/CSS |
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| 35 | Firefox console, checking for warnings/errors. |