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PSA: I paid $500 for a 'color contrast checker' tool that my browser does for free
I saw an ad for this software that promised to analyze all my web designs for accessibility issues. The demo looked great, so I bought it. Turns out, the main feature is just checking color contrast ratios... which Chrome DevTools has built in for zero dollars. I feel like a total fool. Has anyone else been burned by a tool that just repackages a free feature?
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caleb1916mo ago
You call that a main feature? The tool probably bundles it with a full workflow audit, which DevTools can't do alone.
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amy_lopez806mo ago
My old boss at a marketing agency spent over two grand on a site crawler that just pulled basic Lighthouse data. The real issue is these tools hide the free feature in a fancy report to look valuable. Why do we keep trusting the demo over checking what our browsers already do?
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sam_harris685mo ago
Yeah @amy_lopez80 I just switched back to Lighthouse in Chrome and it did everything I needed for free.
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