Accessibility
Oobee: Enabling the development of more inclusive government digital services
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Open-source and automated testing tool that scans and analyses digital products quickly, to identify and fix accessibility issues.
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Pinpoints specific lines of codes with accessibility bugs and provides suggested fixes.
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Improves accessibility of websites for people with disabilities (PWD).
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Scanned over 500,000 pages and identified over 7.5 million accessibility bugs.
At GovTech, we champion the need to increase digital inclusion. A huge part of that begins with helping our fellow agencies ensure that their websites meet accessibility standards, and thus can be used easily by persons with disabilities (PWD).
GovTech's Accessibility Enabling Team (A11y Team) hence set out to create Oobee (formerly known as Purple A11y), an open-source, customisable, and automated web accessibility testing tool that allows software development teams to find and fix accessibility problems.
The tool runs a bot that scans and analyses web pages for issues such as an improper labeling of images or buttons. After the scan, the bot assesses the impact rating of the accessibility issues to help webmasters decide on the next steps.
To date, it has scanned over 500,000 pages and identified over 7.5 million accessibility bugs to date.
Why use Oobee?
The tool allows public service officers to improve the accessibility of their websites as well as streamline web management. Here's how.
How to use Oobee?
Start using Oobee in just three easy steps!
