WAVE Evaluation Tool

Evaluate web accessibility within your browser.

Total ratings for WAVE Evaluation Tool

4.10 (Rating count: 134)

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Pros

Useful tool for assessing web accessibility
Provides detailed and easy to understand results
Finds accessibility issues that other extensions miss
Can be used for local testing
Free to use

Cons

UI can be confusing or clunky
Can have false positives or miss some issues
May slow down browser performance
No way to output error reports
Does not persist settings between pages

Most mentioned

Useful tool for accessibility testing
UI can be confusing
Can have false positives
Works well for local testing
Free to use
Can be slow
No way to output error reports
Settings do not persist
Finds accessibility issues that other extensions miss
Detailed and easy to understand results

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Recent 25 reviews for WAVE Evaluation Tool

Recent rating average: 3.68

All time rating average: 4.10

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2023-03-08	Jared Reid	This does not work. I was unable to highlight anything after making sure it was enabled with permissions, and trying it in both an updated Chrome and Edge browser separately. Nothing gets highlighted or saved, even on a Google search page.
2023-01-13	Teri Brooks	I added a bunch of similar extensions and none of them worked properly, or they only provided some info but required you to sign up to get the "full" experience. But this one is fantastic and provides all the details I need in an easy to understand layout. It finds stuff that other extensions missed, and it's quick and doesn't slow down the browser. Being able to toggle between showing the styles or hiding them is a nice touch. My only issue is that by using this extension, I give them permission to read my browser history. What on earth do they need that for? That's a bit of a concern.
2022-10-25	Tony Langford	It's a pretty useful tool, but there are some annoyances that make it hard to work with: 1) On the details pane you can check and uncheck the type of errors/warnings to show, we are doing our first round of testing an improvements and so want to focus on just Errors/Contrast Errors. But these settings do not persist, each page it's open extension, details tab, uncheck all these warning/aria sections.... allow these settings to persist please! 2) It's static. We have a React JS UI. The page is changing as the user uses it, the extension however only looks at the page at the point the extension loads. So you have to turn it off, wait for the page to reload, make sure its back at the new state you want it, and then turn it back on.... Just takes far too long. 3) It messes up styles, things get shifted off the page which makes it difficult to see certain problems
2022-08-03	Ermes Mox	Slow, old, with a lot of issues. It's time to update and improve this tool.
2022-05-25	Mitchell Christensen	Great tool. Thank you for providing such a useful tool for accessibility
2022-05-21	Rocky Kev	Used this to update and ensure accessibility for hundreds of sites.
2022-02-09	Kim Tan	Can't seem to get it to work on the latest version of chrome :(
2022-02-02	Ferran Buireu	Fácil de usar y con reportes detallados.
2021-12-20	A D	This used to work for local html files. It no longer does? Edit: You need to enable file access in the extension settings. This is an extremely helpful tool.
2021-11-23	James Kuffner	The wave results sits over part of the web page being assessed and therefore any errors on the page are hidden by the results. Desaturate page resizes the page to fit next to the wave results which is great and the normal view should do the same.
2021-11-05	Ryan	Useful tool, and at an unbeatable price point of 'free'. But there's no way to output errors - even a raw txt file with error type and the line of code would be fine, not looking for anything fancy. UI is tucked off to one side, so once you have more than a handful of errors it's very easy to get lost in a sea of repetitive and small error indicators. Crashes Chrome not infrequently when making use of the Code view with styles turned on.
2021-10-25	Marcelo Quintino da Silva	Not a good tool. The UI is poor and confusing. The results can sometimes overlay the page content makin impossible to find the problem. It does not refresh/reassess the page when you navigate thru the websites.
2021-08-02	Freddy Jey	It's great but it misses a very important feature: The ability to simply rerun the accessiblity check without having to reload the full web app. It becomes very cumbersome to test all combinations of your app state when you have to reload the web app every time you want to rerun a test.. It would be nice if the sidebar simply had a "RECHECK" button.
2020-10-26	Dario Alpern	According to https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html , an inactive button has no contrast requirement, but the tool shows a Very Low Contrast error in an inactive button in my Web site. This appears to be an error in this Chrome extension.
2020-10-12	Laurence Cope	This is great, I found it when I was blocked from their website due to limits, I didn't know this existed Its much faster than using their website. The only issue I have, which would gain it 5 stars if this was addressed, is when you navigate to a new page or refresh the page the tool is not enabled again, you have to click the plugin icon every time, so it can be annoying. Ideally it should have an enable permanent feature so it will stay active and check pages as you navigate a site or refresh pages. That would be ideal. Thanks
2020-08-03	Adam Reece	Room for improvement. Very annoying that every page that gets validated you have to deselect all of the valid aspects. When this is turned off it should remain off. -- We need to know what to fix, not what's already good.
2020-01-07	Rob Wise	This app has recently been updated and I have to say that it has brought massive improvements in the UX and performance of the tool. It's much more impressive than it was a year or so ago, and it has a lot more features packed in. It's important to note that genuine accessibility is not just a checkbox- making your site useful without javascript is not a trivial task, and really has to be done with a human touch. However this tool is an excellent first step in pointing out the basics. Developers note, sometimes things like debug overlays (like django/flask ones) can get warnings flagged and hidden which makes them sometimes hard to find- but there's nothing this tool can do about that- it's inspecting the entire window.
2019-12-10	Darren Sweet	Recently I have used many different accessibility checkers, all are useful but many are not efficient to use. Wave shows me clearly what the issues are, shows me markers visually on my own page and provides a clear description of the issue and what to do about it.
2019-11-22	Andreas Schieferbein	As a fullstack developer, this is the first time that the topic "Accessibility and UIs (React/Spa)" comes into contact. A cover of Specs is to be considered, this Tool makes the entrance into this not quite simple topic for me clearly easier. My thanks go to the developers, very useful.
2019-11-04	Layman Design	Where did the ability to filter down to WCAG AA 2.0 go? What standard is the new redesign using as the "default"?
2019-11-01	Daryl Knight	The new update is really useful. It breaks the page layout less than the old version, explains what's wrong - WHY it's important and how to fix it. Thank you.
2019-10-30	Alex O'Connell	Something JUST broke the extension, we use it daily at work here, and today I went to use it and its now broken
2019-10-30	Joshua Vodkahäus	The update looks so much nicer, good job! I ran into an issue where I needed to test locally and couldn't use my normal tools, and after finding this Wave plugin I don't need to any more!
2019-10-23	Luke Pennings	Clunky; and nearly always points out non-issues with very little direction on where they are originating. You would only use this if you are a QA person for basic HTML and you need to get by not knowing any code at all.
2019-09-25	Colleen LeMasters	This proved to be a very handy tool for assessing web accessibility but I wish I knew to what standard it was being measured... WCAG 2.0? A? AA? If that was added, it would be extremely helpful. Bonus points if we could select the level at which we tested.