WAccess

What is WAccess?

WAccess is a Chrome plugin, to find guideline violations with respect to WCAG guidelines.

Features of WAccess:

1. Processess the guideline criteria with respect to all the three WCAG series (for selected guidelines from each).
2. Analyzes the HTML page with respect to 13 WCAG 2.0 guidelines, 5 WCAG 2.1 guidelines and 6 WCAG 2.2 guidelines.
3. Violations are specified with the code snippet that violated a particular rule and a possible fix to pass the violated criterion.

Uses of WAccess:

WAccess is aimed to help developers find the piece of code that is not confirming to web accessibility standards and fix it.

Overview diagram of WAccess:

Snapshot of Violations highlighted for UIDAI Aadhaar Website (https://uidai.gov.in/):

Snapshot of Violations highlighted for Department of Industries & Commerce Website (http://jkindustriescommerce.nic.in/):

Evaluation

WAccess has been used to evaluate 24 Indian government websites (obtained from GOI India - https://goidirectory.gov.in/).

What's inside WAccess Repository:

1. Each guideline's criteria is evaluated by the content_scripts that are named in the format GuidelineName_ID(ConformanceLevel)
2. For guidelines belonging to WCAG 2.1, we have bundled the entire evaluation to one single file named wcag_2_1_bundled.js
3. manifest.json file includes the url that triggers start of WAccess, and content scripts that evaluate guideline criteria for the opened website.
4. jquery-3.6.0.js is the jquery resource file for utilizing the jquery constructs in the content_scripts.

Steps to install WAccess:

1. Download the repository on your local machine.
2. Unzip the folder and extract it to a location of your choice on your PC.
3. Now, open Google Chrome and Go to Settings
4. Select Extensions or navigate to chrome://extensions
5. Turn on Developer Mode at the right side top corner of chrome://extensions
6. Click on “Load unpacked”
7. A popup appears to select folder
8. Select WAccess folder from the location you previously extracted to, and click on OK.
9. WAccess Plugin gets installed on Chrome.

Steps to use WAccess:

1. Navigate to any website of your choice
2. Open the web console (using Ctrl + Shift + I) and see through the guidelines being violated and inspect the codes responsible for violation.

How to contribute to WAccess

We will be very happy to receive any kind of contributions. Incase of a bug or an enhancement idea or a feature improvement idea, please open an issue or a pull request. Incase of any queries or if you would like to give any suggestions, please feel free to contact Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla ([email protected]) or Kowndinya Boyalakuntla ([email protected]) or Sridhar Chimalakonda ([email protected]) of RISHA Lab, IIT Tirupati, India.