Sasha Chudesnov Chudesnov

NOTE: This is no longer an experiment! You can use the accessibility inspector in Chrome Devtools now, including a fantastic color contrast inspection tool. Read more: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/01/devtools#a11y

Just like any good element inspector helps you debug styles, accessibility inspection in the browser can help you debug HTML and ARIA exposed for assistive technologies such as screen readers. There's a similar tool in Safari (and reportedly one in Edge) but I like the Chrome one best.

As an internal Chrome experiment, this tool differs from the Accessibility Developer Tools extension in that it has privileged Accessibility API access and reports more information as a result. You can still use the audit feature in the Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools, or you could use the aXe Chrome extension. :)

To enable the accessibility inspector in Chrome stable:

	/**
	* = Visually Hide text
	*
	* Text remains accessible to AT such as Screen Readers
	* Updated version:
	* Taken from http://hugogiraudel.com/2016/10/13/css-hide-and-seek/
	*
	* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
	.visually-hidden {
	border: 0 !important;

	<div style="border:1px solid blue; margin: 5px; padding: 5px;">
	<label data-bind="text: labelText"></label>
	<input type="text" />
	</div>

	/**
	* Build for production:
	* $ NODE_ENV=production webpack
	*
	* Build for staging or development mode
	* $ webpack
	*
	* Run app server in dev mode and use Hot Module Replacement
	* $ NODE_ENV=webpack nodemon --watch ./app index.js
	*

	list=$(git branch --list \| grep -v \*)
	declare -a branches=($list)

	echo "Branches: "
	for i in "${!branches[@]}"; do
	printf "%s\t%s\n" "[$i]" "${branches[$i]}";
	done

	printf "Enter the number of the branch you'd like to switch to: "

	#!/bin/bash

	# Sync Homebrew installations between Macs via Dropbox
	#

	BREW="/usr/local/bin/brew"

	# first get local settings
	echo "Reading local settings ..."
	rm -f /tmp/brew-sync.*