Silktide Accessibility Checker

Test your website against over 200 website accessibility checks with Silktide’s easy to understand accessibility checker.
What is Silktide Accessibility Checker?
"Silktide Accessibility Checker" is a Chrome extension that enables users to evaluate over 200 WCAG compliance checks on their website. It highlights issues, offers solutions, and includes a screen reader simulator, color contrast analyzer, and alt text verifier to ensure your site is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. As a tool from a leader in web governance, it's designed for simplicity and effectiveness in promoting web accessibility.

Extension stats

Users: 20,000+
Rating: 4.93 (29)
Version: 2.0.2 (Last updated: 2024-07-04)
Creation date: 2023-12-07
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • scripting
  • declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
  • https://*.silktide.com/
Size: 12.12M

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Extension summary

✅ Test your webpages for over 200 website WCAG accessibility checks ✅ See highlighted accessibility concerns directly on the webpage ✅ Use our straightforward, step-by-step guidance to fix the issues ✅ Check WCAG color contrast of any on-page elements ✅ Check alt text of any on-page images ✅ Listen to your website with our screen reader simulator

Additional features

🔥 Check accessibility against 200 WCAG standards including 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 🔥 Discover color contrast errors with our handy color picker 🔥 Understand which images on the page have alt text, missing alt text, or decorative alt text 🔥 Understand how your site appears to users with visual impairments.

We aim for our accessibility checker to be the most user-friendly on the market. We'll help you test against the WCAG accessibility standards, up to the latest 2.2 release. Our tool can also help you find ADA website accessibility violations.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • User-friendly interface and easy to use.
  • Comprehensive accessibility reports with clear guidance on fixes.
  • Multiple tools for simulating different disabilities and experiences.
  • Quickly identifies and highlights accessibility issues.
  • Efficient for both live websites and local development.
Cons
  • Some testing features like screen reader status aren't fully functional.
  • Text shadow contrast may not be accurately assessed.
  • Occasional downtime or unavailability of the tool.
Most mentioned
  • Screen reader simulator is particularly useful.
  • Comprehensive insights and actionable recommendations.
  • Integration of multiple accessibility testing tools in one extension.
Recent reviews
The test does not correctly take into account the text shadow, which significantly improves the contrast. I asked an acquaintance from my vocational training who has very poor eyesight and the answer was that the text is very easy to read with the text shadow.
by Orgoth Dorngree, 2024-08-07

Love this tool but it is down right now for me, maybe a update is happening.
by Breamon Daniel, 2024-06-26

Nice tool, modern and intuitive. I like the built-in contrast checker.
by Irina Ten, 2024-06-14
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Silktide Accessibility Checker requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Silktide Accessibility Checker may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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