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Which Evaluation tool is best for your site?

Depending on your needs, different types or classifications of evaluation tools offer different report formats, additional features, and benefits that can help you choose a tool for your situation. So which tool is right for you? That depends on your skillset and how you define your web responsibilities.

It’s often best to use various tools to test various aspects of web accessibility and get varying feedback and reports to ensure you are capturing all possible issues.

It is very important to keep in mind that to date, no website evaluation tool has been developed that can completely replace a human being. This is because with present technology it is difficult to emulate human attributes such as common sense. Including users in the development process helps you more efficiently develop accessible products that work well for real users in real situations. In this regard, these tools should be used with caution, and the results that they produce should be interpreted in context with the website you are evaluating. Moreover, since accessibility is a subset of usability, these tools should only be used to evaluate accessibility and not usability since, at best, they can only show you where your site is not accessible. The more inclusive we are to the user's needs, the more accessible our design is.