Accessibility audits

Jeremy Keith suggests in his text Accessibility audits for all to verify accessiblity by yourself as far as you can. Jeremy also provides the audit report he produced for the site of his agency, Clearleft. It contains prioritized findings and recommendations for solving the findings. Here is how Jeremy does audits:

• Put your mouse and trackpad aside and use the Tab to navigate your website. Do you have a clear focus indication? Is the tabbing order correct?
• Zoom into your site and magnify to 200% or even 500%. Is the site still working without any content getting pushed out of the visible screen area, or do you get a mobile friendly layout in that case?
• Use tools to examine the sites HTML and CSS. Jeremy suggests tota11y, which I think has a nice and unobtusive user interface. Jeremy is also pointing to ANDI as a possible tool. Both tools will be activated through a bookmarklet for each page to examine. In the past I was using the accessiblity tab of the Firefox dev tools for the job. Recently I found the IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker might be an interesting option. It will give more findings than the Firefox checker. With some findings of the IBM checker I am not sure if the indicated items are issues at all, e.g. the IBM checker is showing Violation: The figure element does not have an associated label for a figure without a figcaption. The IBM checker has plugins for Chrome and Firefox, and there even is a Node package.