Top 5 Tools to Test and Improve Your Website’s Accessibility
You don’t fix web accessibility with one scanner, you fix it with the right mix of tools that cover automated rules, visual inspection, keyboard behavior, and release-safe automation. The best “Top 5” stack for most teams is Lighthouse, WAVE, axe DevTools, Accessibility Insights for Web, and Pa11y CI because together they catch more issues, earlier, and with less rework. This guide breaks down exactly where each tool wins, what it misses, and how to use the output to improve real user access, not just scores. You’ll also get a practical workflow that fits the way modern teams ship websites: local dev checks, QA verification, and CI guardrails. If you manage multiple environments, authenticated pages, or complex flows, the recommendations stay usable without turning accessibility into a slow side project. Tool 1: Google Lighthouse (Chrome DevTools) For Fast, Repeatable Baselines Lighthouse is the quickest way to get a baseline view of accessibility risk, especially when you need a repo...