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WAVE Evaluation Tool

Evaluate web accessibility within your browser.

Users700KCurrent public install base
Rating4.1Store average score
Reviews159Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.3.0.4
ManifestV3
Size391KiB
Languages1English (United States)
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WAVE is a web accessibility evaluation tool developed by WebAIM.org. It provides visual feedback about the accessibility of your web content by injecting icons and indicators into your page. No automated tool can tell you if your page is accessible, but WAVE facilitates human evaluation and educates about accessibility issues. All analysis is done entirely within the Chrome browser allowing secure valuation of intranet, local, password protected, and other sensitive web pages.

To run a WAVE report, simply click on the WAVE icon to the right of your browser address bar, or select "WAVE this page" from the context menu.

WAVE errors align with WCAG 2.2 failures. The WAVE interface facilitates human evaluation of many other aspects of accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, ADA, and Section 508 compliance.

Version 3.3.0.4 (December 2025) - Bug fix for scripting exception with some pages with small text. Minor interface improvements.

Version 3.3.0.3 (November 2025) provides performance, interface, and testing improvements. Improved support for ARIA headings and prefers-reduced-motion user settings.

Version 3.3.0.0 (October 2025) adds numerous new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Resetting the extension no longer refreshes the page, thus supporting better testing of dynamic content. The Summary and Details panel are now combined. The AIM Score is presented. Viewing the Order, Structure, or Contrast tabs now filters to only relevant page icons. The WAVE sidebar can now be collapsed out of view.

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Store average score4.1Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text86Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews159Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.1. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Jared Reid2023年3月8日
1

This does not work. I was unable to highlight anything after making sure it was enabled with permissions, and trying it in both an updated Chrome and Edge browser separately. Nothing gets highlighted or saved, even on a Google search page.

Language en
9 helpful · 14 not helpful
Teri Brooks2023年1月13日
5

I added a bunch of similar extensions and none of them worked properly, or they only provided some info but required you to sign up to get the "full" experience. But this one is fantastic and provides all the details I need in an easy to understand layout. It finds stuff that other extensions missed, and it's quick and doesn't slow down the browser. Being able to toggle between showing the styles or hiding them is a nice touch. My only issue is that by using this extension, I give them permission to read my browser history. What on earth do they need that for? That's a bit of a concern.

Language en
7 helpful · 0 not helpful
Tony Langford2022年10月25日
3

It's a pretty useful tool, but there are some annoyances that make it hard to work with: 1) On the details pane you can check and uncheck the type of errors/warnings to show, we are doing our first round of testing an improvements and so want to focus on just Errors/Contrast Errors. But these settings do not persist, each page it's open extension, details tab, uncheck all these warning/aria sections.... allow these settings to persist please! 2) It's static. We have a React JS UI. The page is changing as the user uses it, the extension however only looks at the page at the point the extension loads. So you have to turn it off, wait for the page to reload, make sure its back at the new state you want it, and then turn it back on.... Just takes far too long. 3) It messes up styles, things get shifted off the page which makes it difficult to see certain problems

Language en
11 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ermes Mox2022年8月3日
2

Slow, old, with a lot of issues. It's time to update and improve this tool.

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Rocky Kev2022年5月21日
5

Used this to update and ensure accessibility for hundreds of sites.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kim Tan2022年2月9日
3

Can't seem to get it to work on the latest version of chrome :(

Language en
0 helpful · 2 not helpful
Ferran Buireu2022年2月2日
4

Fácil de usar y con reportes detallados.

Language es
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Arron D2021年12月17日
5

This used to work for local html files. It no longer does? Edit: You need to enable file access in the extension settings. This is an extremely helpful tool.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
James Kuffner2021年11月23日
4

The wave results sits over part of the web page being assessed and therefore any errors on the page are hidden by the results. Desaturate page resizes the page to fit next to the wave results which is great and the normal view should do the same.

Language en
Ryan2021年11月5日
3

Useful tool, and at an unbeatable price point of 'free'. But there's no way to output errors - even a raw txt file with error type and the line of code would be fine, not looking for anything fancy. UI is tucked off to one side, so once you have more than a handful of errors it's very easy to get lost in a sea of repetitive and small error indicators. Crashes Chrome not infrequently when making use of the Code view with styles turned on.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful