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Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Accessibility
Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM
- [Instructor] The Wave browser add-on from webaim.org is a useful quick testing tool. It helps you get an overview of many potential issues. The tool is available as a browser toolbar, so you can use it on almost any browser. When you trigger it, it gives you a panel of many different possible areas of errors. It's divided into six groups, errors, alerts, structural elements, contrast errors, features, and ARIA. Now, this is showing you a lot of information. There are a lot of icons, it can be very complicated to understand what's going on. But you can look at the details panel to get a lot of additional detail. In the errors panel, you'll get a list of each item throughout the page that Wave has decided might be a possible point of risk. Some of these are definite errors. In this case, we have eight linked images without alternative text. That means those images have no accessible name and that link won't be expressed…
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