accessibility

Audit web accessibility by validating color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and skip links against WCAG 2.2 guidelines. You can structure evaluations using POUR principles and practical ARIA patterns to identify and fix interface barriers.

Testing keyboard navigation and screen reader support involves applying practical accessibility patterns to verify focus management and ARIA usage. You validate operability by ensuring users can navigate interfaces and interact with content without a mouse.

Lighthouse checks color contrast and ARIA patterns by evaluating web pages against accessibility standards. It identifies violations in perceivable design and robust ARIA implementation, generating actionable items to improve compliance for screen readers.

Yes, you can use axe-core and WAVE to validate skip links and focus management. These tools scan web interfaces to detect operability issues, confirming that keyboard focus moves logically and bypass links function correctly for assistive technologies.

The POUR principles require web content to be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. They structure accessible design by ensuring all users can perceive information, navigate interfaces, comprehend content, and interact using assistive technologies.

Yes, this accessibility audit approach works for dashboards, product pages, forms, and content-heavy sites. It applies WCAG 2.2 conformance guidance and actionable checklists to validate interfaces across various complex web layouts.