Ensure inclusive design with professional accessibility tools. Test color contrast, simulate color blindness, and create accessible color schemes that work for everyone.
Inclusive design isn't just good practice—it's essential for reaching all users. With over 8% of men and 0.5% of women experiencing some form of color vision deficiency, ensuring your colors are accessible is crucial for user experience and legal compliance.
This comprehensive collection features the most important tools for creating accessible color schemes and ensuring WCAG compliance. From basic contrast checking to comprehensive accessibility testing, these tools help you design for everyone.
Our accessibility tools cover every aspect of color accessibility: individual color contrast checking, bulk palette testing, color blindness simulation, and accessible palette generation. Each tool provides clear pass/fail indicators, specific recommendations for improvement, and links to WCAG guidelines.
Perfect for web developers ensuring ADA compliance, UI/UX designers creating inclusive interfaces, brand designers developing accessible color systems, and anyone committed to making their designs work for all users.
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Color accessibility isn't just about compliance—it's about ensuring everyone can use your product effectively. The Color Contrast Checker evaluates individual color combinations against WCAG standards, which define minimum contrast ratios based on extensive research into readability. For normal text, you need 4.5:1 for AA compliance and 7:1 for AAA, while larger text (18pt+ or 14pt+ bold) has more lenient requirements of 3:1 and 4.5:1 respectively.
The Contrast Grid Checker revolutionizes palette testing by showing you every possible color combination in your palette at once. Instead of manually testing each pairing, you can instantly see which combinations pass or fail WCAG standards. This comprehensive view helps you identify problematic colors before they're integrated into your design system, saving hours of remediation work later.
Color blindness affects roughly 8% of men and 0.5% of women, yet many designers never test for it. The Color Blindness Simulator shows exactly how your designs appear to users with protanopia (red-blind), deuteranopia (green-blind), tritanopia (blue-blind), or complete color blindness. Testing with this tool often reveals that color-coded information becomes completely indistinguishable for certain users.
The Accessible Palette Generator takes a proactive approach by helping you create color systems that work for everyone from the start. It generates palettes with built-in consideration for color blindness and contrast requirements, ensuring your colors are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally accessible. This tool saves time by preventing accessibility issues rather than fixing them after the fact.
Essential tools for testing color contrast ratios and accessibility standards
Tools for understanding how different users perceive color
Common ways professionals use these tools together
Test all color combinations
Contrast Grid Checker
Check individual text contrasts
Color Contrast Checker
Simulate for color blindness
Color Blindness Simulator
Verify palette safety
Accessible Palette Generator
Generate accessible base palette
Accessible Palette Generator
Validate contrast ratios
Contrast Grid Checker
Test with color blindness simulation
Color Blindness Simulator
Identify failing combinations
Color Contrast Checker
Review full palette grid
Contrast Grid Checker
Generate compliant alternatives
Accessible Palette Generator
Verify fixes work for color blind users
Color Blindness Simulator
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