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Axe® accessibility testing tools are the best on the planet
Microsoft, Google, and development and testing teams everywhere choose axe to help make their websites, mobile apps & digital content accessible. You should too.
Robust, efficient and accurate accessibility testing tools for all
Built on the world’s most popular accessibility testing library, axe-core. Deque’s suite of axe tools offers full coverage for your testing and compliance needs.
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Key Features
- Automated testing
- Intelligent Guided Testing™
- Save & export results
axe DevTools
This powerful and accurate toolkit can get you to 80% accessibility issue coverage, or more, during development.
Key Features
- Automated testing
- Intelligent Guided Testing
- Linting
- CI/CD integrations
- Command-line interface (CLI)
axe Auditor
Perform full-coverage, consistent Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) audits of all content and applications.
Key Features
- Comprehensive manual testing methodology
- Predefined issues for all content
- Group and filter issues for easy communication
axe Monitor
Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your entire website.
Key Features
- Web pages and PDFs
- Scan whole sites
- Scan behind authentication and firewalls
- Watch your status across drill down dashboards
“Having tools that allow you to automate the scans and integrate them into your build process helps a lot because you don’t have to rely on somebody remembering to do it as part of your release process– it just happens automatically.”
— Bob Andreasen Executive Director of Software Quality Assurance, Harland Clarke
Benefits of working with axe accessibility testing tools
Saves Time & Resources
Axe DevTools helps your web and mobile dev teams catch accessibility errors while coding, dramatically reducing the time and cost of manual testing down the line.
Full Coverage Compliance
Axe Auditor enables functional testers with minimal accessibility knowledge to perform step-by-step manual accessibility tests, catching a wide breadth of issues that automated tools alone do not cover.
Reliable Compliance Monitoring
Axe Monitor helps ensure your website becomes compliant and remains compliant. Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your site across business and development teams.
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Helpful Resources
Axe-con Sessions
Watch on-demand sessions from the world’s largest digital accessibility conference to help further your accessibility efforts.
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View product documentation for all of Deque’s axe accessibility testing tools.
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Learn MoreFrequently Asked Questions
Often referred to as digital accessibility testing tools, they exist to surface usability barriers for people with disabilities so that they can be fixed. There are a range of tools which help accomplish this. Some are automated or semi-automated and can test for specific barriers and others a wide array. It’s important to select a tool that avoids creating false positives, which wastes valuable development time.
There are 3 types of accessibility testing. 1) Automated- like when a rules engine like axe-core, scans, or analyzes a web page against accessibility standards, such as WCAG. 2) Semi-automated- sometimes referred to as guided testing, like the Intelligent Guided Testing (IGTs) in axe DevTools which rely on question and answer prompts. 3) Manual- when an accessibility expert uses assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and lived experiences to catch complex accessibility barriers that automation is unable to reliably detect.
Web accessibility testing tools that are build on axe-core are the best in the world. The axe Linter for VS Code is a popular free static code analysis tool used by over 20,000 developers. The free axe DevTools browser extension is available in Chrome, Firefox and Edge and is used by hundreds of thousands of people around the globe to catch accessibility errors.
Another popular free tool is Google Lighthouse, which is also powered by axe-core.
Apple and Google provide limited support for accessibility testing of mobile applications with their tools: Accessibility Inspector built into Xcode and Google Scanner on the Play Store. While these tools are free, they won’t capture the same issues and coverage may not align with WCAG’s guidelines.
Deque offers native mobile accessibility testing with axe DevTools Mobile for iOS and Android. Learn more about iOS or Android mobile accessibility testing tools.