tota11y
The facts below are what the maker publishes about tota11y, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From tota11y's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| tota11y | Free | Open-source accessibility visualization toolkit |
The facts
Each one read from tota11y's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Alt text
- The image and alt module prompts users to check whether alt text is accurate rather than treating its presence as sufficient.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Compatibility caveat
- The maker’s page reports that a company Content Security Policy blocking scripts through script-src prevented the bookmarklet from working on some sites.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Contrast checker
- The contrast checker calculates contrast with text boldness in mind and ignores transparent or visually hidden text in specified cases.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Extension
- The instructions page links to a Chromium extension.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Focus order
- The Focus Order plugin identifies naturally focusable elements and elements with tabindex, while warning that its guessed tab order is not guaranteed.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The repository describes a community example integrating Tota11y into a webpack build for a React and TypeScript project.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- The Babylon fork is licensed under MIT, MPL-2.0, and Apache-2.0.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Limit
- The maker describes Tota11y as a visualization tool for common accessibility errors and says it is not designed to check everything.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Other checks
- Modules cover headings, labels, empty elements, iframe titles, HTML landmarks, and explicitly set ARIA roles.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Tota11y visualizes widespread web accessibility errors in a way intended to be understandable to content creators and editors.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Scan scope
- pagechecked 21 Sep 2026
- Security
- The instructions page says version 1.2.0 added Black Duck security testing.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The repository invites contributions and provides setup instructions using git clone and npm install.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Use
- The site provides a bookmarklet that users can add to a browser bookmarks bar and activate to inspect a page.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser support
- The instructions name Firefox, Chromium, and Safari for the bookmarklet.checked 5 Oct 2026
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