Accessibility Cloud Companion

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Audit with precision: WCAG coverage, hundreds of checkpoints, guided tests, simulations, one-click Accessibility Cloud import. Audit with precision: complete WCAG coverage, hundreds of checkpoints, guided tests, disability and screen-reader simulations, one-click import to Accessibility Cloud for report creation. Accessibility Cloud Companion is the manual-testing counterpart to Accessibility Cloud's automatic scanning. It runs entirely in your browser as a side panel (Alt+C), so you can audit any page you can open — including localhost, dev builds, and VPN-gated staging environments no hosted crawler can reach. AUDIT — guided manual testing • Detects the components actually on the page (navigation, forms, tables, media, dialogs, and more) and builds a tailored checklist from a catalogue of 600+ checkpoints covering WCAG 2.2 and best practices. • Walk each component's tests, record Pass / Fail / Not applicable verdicts, highlight the exact elements on the live page, and capture element screenshots as evidence. • Automated results pre-fill what software can decide, so your time goes into what needs a human judgement. Verdicts are remembered across pages, so repeated components (headers, footers, menus) aren't re-tested on every page. • Findings — including your own custom findings — accumulate into a single audit you can import into Accessibility Cloud for report creation. TEST — runtime checks on the live page • Tab stops: visualize the keyboard focus order with numbered markers to spot DOM-vs-visual mismatches. • Focus indicator: walk every focusable element and judge its visible focus state. • Color contrast: measure text and non-text contrast against WCAG 1.4.3 / 1.4.11 thresholds. • Disable CSS, Reflow, and Resize text checks for structure and zoom robustness. SIMULATE — experience the page as your users do • Full screen reader simulation, right in the panel. • Twenty toggleable simulations across Vision, Color blindness, Hearing, Motor, and Cognitive groups — stack them to spot barriers automated checks can't see. CAPTURE — bring unreachable pages into Accessibility Cloud • Scan pages with automated checks and choose exactly which pages will be imported to Accessibility Cloud, screenshots included. • Automatic capture mode can walk a site section for you, page by page, under your control. • Nothing leaves your browser: bundles stay in local extension storage until you trigger the import from Accessibility Cloud. UTILITIES • User flow recorder for replaying actions in Accessibility Cloud scans. • Visual CSS selector picker. • One-click copy of cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage for scan settings. PRIVACY & ACCESS • Everything except the import works without an account; an Accessibility Cloud account is only needed to pull your results into reports. • Capture is always user-initiated. • The extension is built to support WCAG 2.2 AA and dark mode. Companion is the sibling of Accessibility Cloud Lite: Lite stays as scanner and highlighter; Companion is the full audit workbench.

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