At Codegarden this year, my accessibility package Accessibility Reporter won the Umbraco Package Award.

Codegarden happened in June, so I am writing this blog post a bit late, but you know how it is.

I totally did not expect my package to win the award and I am so thankful for the judges for voting for it. In my eyes there are so many more greater packages out there.

Apparently for these things you are meant to prepare a bit of a speech, which I would strongly recommend you do if you ever find yourself in this sort of situation! I did not and my wife got a bit annoyed that I didn't mention her. Instead I mentioned my colleague Jack, who helped out on the backend of the project. Thanks Jack!

Below is a photo of me with all the other Umbraco Award winners.

As you may see in the photo above I had my Accessibility Reporter t-shirt on that Gibe gifted to me for my birthday, I don't just wear it all the time. I was lucky this year, as they usually give me Age of Empires 2 socks.

So what is Accessibility Reporter?

Accessibility Reporter for Umbraco is a dashboard and a content app that helps you test the accessibility of your website against common accessibility standards, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Section 508 and best practices, directly in Umbraco.

Below is a screenshot of what the dashboard looks like.

I created Accessibility Reporter because I have a passion for making websites accessible and at the time there were no other accessibility packages integrated within Umbraco.

Get Involved!

If you want to get involved in the project take a look at the Accessibility Reporter GitHub repo and get in touch with me. I would love for more people to get involved, as with all side projects I have many ideas for it but little time.

Also, if you have not already, please install Accessibility Reporter on your Umbraco website. The installation for most cases is as easy as just installing the nuget package.