Accessibility

Accessibility tools are for auditing and fixing accessibility issues — the kind of work every indie hacker eventually hits and would rather not build from scratch. 5 tools are listed here, each picked and written up individually rather than pulled from an affiliate feed. Accessibility Insights is usually the first one people try: microsoft's free FastPass flags your highest-impact accessibility issues in minutes, with zero sign-up friction. axe DevTools takes a different angle — built on axe-core, the engine quietly powering most other a11y scanners — go to the source instead of a wrapper around it. And Pa11y is worth a look too: free and scriptable — the one to reach for when you want automated accessibility checks in CI, not another dashboard subscription. Every listing below includes the actual tradeoff, not marketing copy, so you can pick based on what you're building instead of what ranks highest in a sponsored roundup elsewhere.