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Accessibility testing tool from TPGi
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ARC Toolkit is a powerful and unique accessibility testing extension favored for its detailed feature set, including iframe support and targeted DOM node inspection. However, recent major updates have degraded usability by removing key features, slowing performance, and complicating the user interface. Many users miss functionalities like tab order visualization and highlight features, while facing bugs and inconsistent error reporting. Despite this, it remains a valuable tool for developers and testers, though users request rollbacks or fixes to restore its previous effectiveness and ease of use.
Pros
- Effective for accessibility testing and compliance with WCAG recommendations.
- Allows testing specific parts of a web page or DOM node, improving focus and efficiency.
- Supports testing on local files, behind firewalls, and deeper user journeys beyond page load.
- Unique capability to work with iframes, which other tools lack.
- Provides useful features like tab order visualization, text contrast checking, and sending code fragments to W3C validation.
Cons
- Recent major updates removed popular features such as tab order, highlighting on webpages, and quick access to headings, landmarks, lists, forms, and alt text.
- The new user interface is considered slow, cluttered, and requires more clicks to perform tasks, resulting in poor user experience.
- Some users report inaccuracies in error reporting and missing or misclassified issues compared to previous versions.
- The extension suffers from bugs like blank screens after updates and lacks a dark mode.
- Users express frustration over lack of communication on updates and desire rollback options to earlier, better versions.
Permissions
This extension can:
- scripting
- webNavigation
- storage
- clipboardWrite
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
Additional Information
5.7.9
April 17, 2025
0.63 MB
en
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