Sa11y the accessibility quality
assurance assistant
Made for content
authors
Sa11y visually highlights content issues at the source with a simple tooltip on how to fix them.
Sa11y is not a comprehensive code analysis tool, nor is it a web accessibility overlay.
Developers and a11y experts
Sa11y is a customizable, framework-agnostic JavaScript plugin.
- Over 50 checks that encourage quality accessibility.
- Automatic: checks content on page load.
- Customizable: Dozens of props to fine tune the experience for content authors.
- Focus on the issues: Turn off irrelevant checks and add exclusions.
- Scalable: Check every page for accessibility.
- Shadow DOM support: Ability to check inside web components or elements with an open Shadow DOM.
Open source
Sa11y is 100% free and open source. You can view the source code on GitHub. Sa11y was made open source in 2020 to help content authors around the world create accessible content for people with disabilities.
Sa11y was originally developed as a custom accessibility checker for Toronto Metropolitan University 's content management system and its several hundred content authors.
Privacy
No personal data is ever collected when you use Sa11y. No tracking, no analytics, no third party content. Sa11y only uses your browser’s web storage to remember the state of optional rulesets and other features you enable.
Only this website uses privacy-oriented analytics. The analytics do not track IP addresses, fingerprints or cookies.