axe DevTools - Web Accessibility Testing

Have to use it for work and nearly everything is paywalled. Feels really gross to use. Another case study of a company deliberately making their product worse just to monetise it at the expense of the user's experience. I'm looking forward to when it hopefully gets replaced soon.

It is payed and doesn't work with dev test environment.

Could someone help with the error below, got it when trying to Full Page Scan. Error: BackgroundRecorder is not running in a known context at #t (chrome-extension://lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd/content.bundle.js:2:85128) at async t.advancedRun (chrome-extension://lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd/content.bundle.js:2:90883) at async chrome-extension://lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd/content.bundle.js:2:51920

The tool stopped working, almost no errors are shown when other tools show basic code errors are present. Not sure if this was because of an update or what happened.

must be broke or something it doesn't do anything

Great extension! But Enabling this breaks the openapi preview mode, throwing the error "Please indicate a valid Swagger or OpenAPI version field". Disabling the extension makes it work. I love this extension but 1 star just to get the attention as this makes it cumbersome to look with the api contracts written in openapi. I'll surely update the review once it's fixed.

Doesn't work if you are not pay lol

This extension uses amplitude for tracking, which gradually fills your cookie with junk 'amp_cookie_text<randomstring>' causing sites to fail to load. Privacy nightmare and shady practices

Tried to run a test, but it's purely focused on getting you to upgrade. Useless by itself, don't waste your time.

Constantly badgers the user to upgrade to the paid version. Not worth the aggravation.

This was a great extension to use, they have since changed it to just push the paid version. If you are not looking to pay for the extension the free version offers nothing.

This tool used to be great, now it's it's a scam. Doesn't actually scan anything. Instead, wants you to subscribe to a 7-day trial and collect your personal information or subscribe to their pro version to unlock anything remotely useful. "Accessibility is for everyone," right?

it didn't give me anything other than attempts to upsell to Pro version right away

Tried a test. Immediately popped up a notification to upgrade to a pro-version.

Worthless, doesn't work at all

When installing the popup warning says "It can read and change all your data on all websites".

Please read Privacy Policy of this extension, Deque (extension publisher) can share/sell/give your data to anyone (also this extension fingerprints you, so if you want to have some privacy - remove AXE immediately).

Almost useless. the lighthouse does the work better.

Somehow it breaks the rendering of the openapi specification in Gitlab.

Good tool, but only if you pay for it. Elementary basic functions were once free, but now have to be paid for. It's worth it if you use it regularly, but it's no longer useful for occasional users.

You can't change to WCAG 2.1 AA and it tests against AAA which is not what you always need. You should have flexibility to test against any WCAG level. Also you should be able to export the results using this extension. They scare you for no reason. You mostly need AA compliance and not AAA

Been using this extensión since it was the only one around that offered a somewhat useful accessibility evaluation. But with the last update redirecting me to a subscription page when I want to "save the results to review" I think is time to let go. Obviously the developer's mind is on another business. Is like putting a toll on access ramps, I'd rather donate the money to my local Blind Association. There's plenty of tools now, maybe one coded by someone that had seen a blind person earn a living navigating blindly a phone all day.

Pages are loading very slow when the extension is enabled, even if Chrome DEV Tools is closed.

While this tool provides some overall good value at a basic level, it's biggest weakness/limitation is that it only analyzes static content. This is very prohibitive in this day/age where nearly all sites are dynamic. Not being able to test actions and dynamic content on a page is a big disappointment as well as not traversing an entire site. Earlier Fireeyes versions allowed it but functionality has been removed over time.

Looks like it would be useful, but the free version doesn't currently let you select WCAG 2.2AA, which is the standard being expected by the UK GDS for Public Sector websites since October 2024. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-public-sector-websites-and-apps#meeting-accessibility-requirements

Good extension, but seems to recently have switched to a paid subscription after an initial trial, and the free version of the extension only displays 50% of the accessibility issues discovered (which is a bit pointless if you're wanting to perform a worthwhile audit).

Not visible in last chrome 83.0.4103.116

The extension is working with axe-core 3.2.2, but I use the selenium driver which uses 3.3.0 - those mismatches make it so in testing and production we get different errors.

This is a great utility, but for an accessibility related plugin its a shame it doesn't work with chrome debugger's dark mode :(