Equa11y: Accessibility Testing Utilities

Tracking since Apr 19, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 7, 2026
  description

  The Equa11y extension is to help test a webpage for accessibility. It is designed to improve the efficiency of accessibility testing with various utilities.
  
  What's New in V1.4!
  Tabbing Order - Now highlights elements with a tabIndex greater than 0.
  Stop Animations - Now stops animations in iframes.
  Reveal Viewport Tag - Now detects if pinch to zoom is disabled.
  Text Spacing - Now adjusts paragraph spacing.
  Text Zoom - Stability Updates
  Display Alt Text - Now reveals when the alt attribute is missing
  Display Heading Levels - Now account for the use of 'aria-level' and dynamic headings that are added/removed from the page
  Display Screen Reader Text - Now prioritizes aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby attributes.
  Stability Fixes
  
  All utilities are broken into tabs by WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guideline) principle:
  
  Perceivable
  Operable
  Understandable
  Robust
  And includes the success criteria for each test.
  
  Set Dark Mode
  Hide the beta utilities
  Change the list of exclusive words
  Increase the font size of the extension
  
  Core Utilities
  Display Alt Text - Outlines and labels images with their alternative text.
  Display Landmark Regions - Outlines and labels landmark regions with there role and label.
  Display Element Roles - Outlines and labels interactive elements with their role.
  Display Heading Levels - Outlines and labels all headings on the page.
  Reveal Viewport Tag - Displays the viewport tag.
  Zoom Text 200% - Zooms text-only on the page by 200%.
  Display Target Size - Displays the current target size of an interactive element.
  Display Screen Reader Text - Displays the hidden text that a screen reader would announce. It takes into consideration the precedence of aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby.
  Highlight Exclusive Text - Scans the page for exclusive words (e.g - "See", "View", etc) and highlights them. You can also modify the list in the NEW "settings" page.
  Reveal Lang Attribute - Displays the lang attribute for the page and any in-page elements.
  
  Beta Utilities
  Outline Embedded Text - Scans all images on the page and attempts to determine if the image has embedded text. (English only)
  Outline Event Listeners - Outlines and labels all non-interactive elements in the page with events. This is useful for identifying elements that may not get keyboard or screen reader focus.

  The Equa11y extension is to help test a webpage for accessibility. It is designed to improve the efficiency of accessibility testing with various utilities.
  
  What's New in V1.5!
  AI Powered Embedded Text - Now uses Google's in-browser AI, Nano, to detect and output the embedded text in the image. This greatly improves the accuracy of the utility.
  Improved Skipped Headings - Improved skipped heading detection.
  Element Roles - Priorizes aria over native roles.
  Many Stability Fixes!
  
  All utilities are broken into tabs by WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guideline) principle:
  
  Main tabs:
  Perceivable
  Operable
  Understandable
  Robust
  And includes a link to the success criteria for each test.
  
  Settings tab:
  Set Dark Mode
  Change the list of exclusive words
  Increase the font size of the extension
  Stop all motion on the webpage
  Increase the batch size of the "Images of Text" utility.
  
  Core Utilities
  Display Alt Text - Outlines and labels images with their alternative text.
  Display Landmark Regions - Outlines and labels landmark regions with there role and label.
  Display Element Roles - Outlines and labels interactive elements with their role.
  Display Heading Levels - Outlines and labels all headings on the page.
  Reveal Viewport Tag - Displays the viewport tag.
  Zoom Text 200% - Zooms text-only on the page by 200%.
  Display Target Size - Displays the current target size of an interactive element.
  Display Screen Reader Text - Displays the hidden text that a screen reader would announce. It takes into consideration the precedence of aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby.
  Highlight Exclusive Text - Scans the page for exclusive words (e.g - "See", "View", etc) and highlights them. You can also modify the list in the NEW "settings" page.
  Reveal Lang Attribute - Displays the lang attribute for the page and any in-page elements.
  Images of Text - Scans all images on the page and attempts to determine if the image has embedded text. (English only)
  Outline Event Listeners - Outlines and labels all non-interactive elements in the page with events. This is useful for identifying elements that may not get keyboard or screen reader focus.

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