A Practical Software Directory for Solo Builders
Making your website clearer and easier to use
Help visitors read your content, find their way around and complete tasks across different devices and browsing needs.
Tools in this category will help you to...
Check colour contrast, find accessibility problems and understand where visitors struggle with your pages. Some tools inspect your website, while others collect feedback or show how people interact with it. Visitor controls can also provide additional reading options. Combine automated findings with practical checks of your content, forms and keyboard navigation, and use feedback from real people to guide improvements.
Colour Contrast Analyser is a free desktop tool for Windows and macOS that checks whether text and interface colours stand out sufficiently from their backgrounds. Use its eyedropper to sample colours directly from your screen, or enter colour values from your website’s styles. It displays the contrast ratio and whether the combination meets relevant WCAG contrast criteria for text and visual controls. You can adjust the colours and compare results before changing your website. A colour-vision simulation provides another way to inspect your choices. It works without adding code to your site, with each check applying to the colours you select.
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Lyssna helps you gather feedback on website designs before committing to changes. Show people a page image, ask where they would click to complete a task, compare alternative layouts or check what they remember after a brief look. Its ongoing free plan allows unlimited single-section studies, with access to the first 15 responses per test from people you invite yourself. Recruiting participants through Lyssna’s own panel costs extra, including on the free plan. Testing a working live website and combining several test sections require a paid subscription. It is useful for checking whether page layouts and navigation make sense to other people.
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Microsoft Clarity is a free tool for seeing how visitors use your website. Heatmaps show where people click and how far they scroll, while session recordings replay their interactions with a page. Filters help you investigate repeated clicks, quick returns and areas where visitors appear to get stuck. These observations can help you improve menus, forms and the placement of important information. Install Clarity through a supported integration or a small piece of website code. There are no traffic limits or paid upgrade tiers for its core website analytics. Configure consent and data-masking settings before collecting visitor activity.
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UserWay adds an accessibility menu to a website through a code snippet or platform integration. Visitors can use its controls to adjust features such as text size, contrast and spacing to suit their reading preferences. A free version provides user-operated adjustments; paid plans also apply automated accessibility changes as pages load. The paid widget offers a seven-day trial, with annual plans starting at US$490 for sites with up to 100,000 monthly pageviews. UserWay also offers monitoring and expert services on separate plans. The widget can support improvements, but your content, navigation and underlying page structure still need checking.
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WAVE is a free accessibility checker from WebAIM that marks potential problems directly on a web page. Enter a page address to inspect issues such as missing alternative text, unlabelled form fields, heading problems and low text contrast. Its icons and explanations help you locate each finding and understand why it may affect a visitor. Free browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox also work with password-protected or locally stored pages. The standard tools check individual pages; paid API services support larger-scale testing. Some findings need human judgement, so use the report alongside checks of your wording, navigation and keyboard access.
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