accessibility-auditlisted

# Accessibility Audit Accessibility is not a feature for a minority. Temporary and situational impairments — a broken arm, bright sunlight, a noisy room, a trackpad that stopped working — mean everyone uses accessible design eventually. It is also increasingly a legal requirement rather than a nice-to-have. **Automated tools catch roughly a third of WCAG issues.** They are necessary and nowhere near sufficient. The findings that matter come from the manual pass. --- ## The four-test triage — run this first Ten minutes, and it finds most serious problems. ### 1. Unplug the mouse Complete the critical journey with `Tab`, `Shift+Tab`, `Enter`, `Space` and the arrow keys. - Can you reach every interactive element? - Can you *see* where you are at all times? (A visible focus indicator is not optional — `outline: none` with no replacement is a `P1` on its own.) - Does the focus order follow the visual order? - Can you escape every component — modal, menu, date picker — without a mouse? - Does anything trap focus permanently? - Is there a skip link to bypass the navigation? ### 2. Zoom to 400% At 400% zoom on a 1280px viewport (equivalent to a 320px-wide window): - Does all content remain available? - Is there horizontal scrolling? (Reflow failure.) - Do fixed elements cover the content? - Does text truncate or overlap? ### 3. Turn on a screen reader NVDA (Windows, free), VoiceOver (macOS/iOS, built in), TalkBack (Android). Twenty minutes learning the basic commands