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How Do I Use a Color Checker To Improve My Site’s Accessibility?
This part is actually really simple, though it takes a little bit of work. You’re going to need to use the online Contrast Checker tool from WebAIM. WebAIM is a non-profit organization based at Utah State University dedicated to improving accessibility all over the web. The actual checker looks like this:











Quick Solution To Make Your Website’s Color Scheme Accessible
Remember how I recommended accessWidget by accessiBe before? Well, again, it’s a great option. For example, if you’re not very technical but you’ve got a WordPress site with a premade theme, and you don’t know (or have time to figure out) how to get into all the various CSS files to make manual changes, accessWidget will do everything for you.
How to Check Your Website’s Overall Accessibility
If the tutorial above seemed like it would be a lot of work, what with copying and pasting colors for all sorts of different website elements, I don’t blame you. You can get results a bit faster with WebAIM’s WAVE tool, which will check your site’s color contrast, as well as let you know about any usability issues in the structure of your site, and other WCAG guideline errors.