Hello Cursor family!
I’m a legally blind software developer. I’ve been working in the industry for about 8 years now. While I learned to code the “old school” way, even with my visual impairment, I recently suffered some further vision loss, and it’s exhausting for me to stare at raw code for eight hours a day. So before I introduce what I built, I just wanted to say a quick thank-you to Cursor and its community for making coding fun and accessible for me again. I career changed from academia into software development because I wanted to create products that had a meaningful impact, and Cursor has made that vision (no pun intended) possible. So thank you!
Introducing A11y Garden, a friendly accessibility audit tool for the web or local development.
Site: https://a11ygarden.org
Code: sethwilsonUS / a11y-garden on Github
Features:
- run an audit on any public URL, or on local web servers if you’re running locally, and get results powered by axe-core, along with AI insights on what to fix first, including platform-specific tips for WordPress etc.
- run audits privately or run them publicly to have them shared to the community garden (public database).
- easily share reports either by sharing the link or by copying the URL. Sharing includes a cool open graph image that won’t shame the target company with their letter grade/score.
- Logged-in users (Google signing powered by Clerk) can see a dashboard of their audits, change the visibility of their audits, or delete audits they’ve created.
Limitations
- many larger sites have firewalls that block Browserless.io, which we use under the hood for automated scans. Browserless I believe does offer a paid tier with better firewall evasion, but at this point in the project it’s not worth it.
- currently the scan runs with a desktop viewport. I’d like to expand it to run a concurrent scan with a mobile viewport to better flag mobile accessibility issues.
The project is open-source. Feedback, constructive criticism, and contributions are very welcome!