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Revision 2 (Sarah Zaranek, 07/15/2022 02:27 PM) → Revision 3/6 (Sarah Zaranek, 07/15/2022 02:28 PM)

h1. Website Checking Tools 

 h2.      Responsiveness/mobile 

 * Firefox Responsive Design Mode (CTRL + SHIFT + M shortcut on linux) 
 * Resize the window to really small (mobile, or xs- in bootstrap, then increase a little to about 400-800 px when the medium viewport must trigger, or md I think in bootstrap) 

 h2.    Accessibility 

 
 * WAVE - https://wave.webaim.org/ 
 * Firefox - Right click anywhere on the screen and "Inspect Accessibility Properties" 
 * Accessi - https://www.accessi.org/ 
 * pa11y.org - https://pa11y.org/ 
 * For contrast, my favorite is squinting my eyes… similar to how you can do to simplify colors in a painting… I find that when the text color fades and almost disappears, that's normally because of bad contrast, and users with disabilities/diseases that cause blurred vision probably won't be comfortable reading it (I did that for Arvados.org and noticed some text that was hard to read, before testing with WAVE & accessi :joy: I just try never let anyone see me doing it) - https://www.sightsize.com/the-value-of-squinting/ 
 * ORCA Linux screen reader - I find that these automated reports are useful for auditing, but for really confirm if a site is accessible, the best is always to ask a person with a disability to test it, or use a screen reader. Windows has a screen reader that's a lot better than ORCA. 

 h2. Performance 

 * Chrome Lighthouse - https://developer.chrome.com/blog/lighthouse-load-performance/ 

 h2. h2 Link Check 
 * W3C Link Checker - https://validator.w3.org/checklink 

 h2. 

     Typos & Grammar 

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     WebStorm (it has a "Inspect" feature that uses a dictionary for typos, and a mix of custom language-rules & LanguageTools for Grammar). Not perfect, and I only run it when I have the code (I didn't use it for Arvados.org) 

 h2. 

     SEO 

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     These two pages recommended by google, for schema.org tags - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data (e.g. https://validator.schema.org/#url=arvados.org) 

 h2. 

     JS/CSS 

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     Firefox console, checking for warnings/errors.