ANDI

The Trusted Tester training requires installing ANDI (Accessible Name & Description Inspector) which is a free accessibility testing tool. ANDI is an open-source project created by the Accessible Solutions Branch of the Social Security Administration; the source code is available on GitHub. To install ANDI, it simply requires adding the JavaScript URL as a bookmark and launching it. We discovered that our organization has JavaScript blocked and it prevents us from adding ANDI as a bookmark. As a workaround, we were able to add ANDI as a snippet in the developer tool and running it by following these instructions.

To create an ANDI snippet:

1. In Chrome, press Ctrl + Shift + j on your keyboard to open the Developer Tools.
2. Click on the Sources tab to open the Sources panel.
3. Click the Snippets tab to open the Snippets pane
4. Click New snippet to create a new snippet.
5. Right-click it and select Rename, type ANDI and then press Enter.
6. Copy & paste ANDI’s JavaScript URL into the Code Editor pane.

javascript:void((function(){
  andiScript=document.createElement('script');
  andiScript.setAttribute('src', 'https://www.ssa.gov/accessibility/andi/andi.js');
  document.body.appendChild(andiScript)
})());

7. Press Ctrl + Enter on your keyboard, to save the ANDI snippet and run it.

To launch ANDI to evaluate a webpage:

1.Press Ctrl + Shift + J on your keyboard to open the Developer Tools. 2.Click on the Sources tab to open the Sources panel. 3.Click the Snippets tab to open the Snippets pane. 4.Right-click on ANDI snippet and select Run to launch ANDI. 5.When you want to launch ANDI again after moving to a new webpage, right-click on the ANDI snippet and select Run.

Screenshot of running ANDI using browser developer tools