Tools won’t solve it entirely for you

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In the past few days I’ve been analysing a couple of web apps and websites to check if tools can really help identify whether a website is accessible. I’ve tested Lighthouse, Claude, ARCToolkit, axe DevTools and did a quick manual check myself (<3mins) as comparison. The conclusion: They can be helpful but are not complete and I was almost always more reliable and significantly faster overall.This shall not be a praise of myself. But if Lighthouse reports a 95% score for accessibility when I identified more than 10 WCAG violations in under three minutes it shows the problem of these scores. The tool says 5% missing and shows a green indicator which means people interpret this as “we’re doing good enough here” (understandably).I’m going to explain my test with an example page that I don’t want to link to publicly. It looks great and in parts accessibility is there.Jump directly down to the summary.Google LighthouseLighthouse reports an overall of 1 issue on the page: aria-hidden…