[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 151544] Web Inspector Accessibility Tools

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151544

--- Comment #2 from Nikita Vasilyev <nvasilyev at apple.com> ---
I agree that the current state of accessibility tooling in Web Inspector isn't great.


(In reply to comment #0)
> The Web Inspector provides numerous useful tools for styling, debugging
> and performance tuning, but it lacks in tools for improving accessibility.
> I'm partially-sighted and so most of what I'd like to see would focus on
> finding issues with low contrast, which has become a concerning recent
> design trend. There are many web-based tools for reporting on the contrast
> between a foreground and background colour, but they're entirely manual
> and don't take into account the size of text in a usable way. It'd be
> fantastic if it took into account the font and font weight too, since
> considering only the colours ignores spindly fonts, etc.

Do you know any tools that do what you've described?
Are there any algorithms that we can use?


> - Tools for reporting on poor choice of colours that will cause
>   difficulty for colourblind users. Such tools exist such as
>   https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/, but require developer
>   awareness and manual testing. Providing it within a developer's
>   typical development environment would be ideal.

I wonder if this can be done with CSS filters and/or blend modes.


> - Tools for reporting other issues such as images without alt tags
> or other elements that'd unusable. This needs expansion.

We could have a mode when we outline images without alt attributes.

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