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Introduction After you run a survey, someone always asks for a printed copy of the results. If you built the form in Google Forms, the Responses tab already draws you nice charts, so printing that screen straight off should just work, right? Try hitting print from the responses page, though, and you get one broken page — even though there are plenty more questions below the fold. The pie charts in the Summary tab get sliced in half at the page boundary, too. I ran into this wall myself, and eventually built a tool for it: PrintImg, which splits a tall screenshot into as many A4 pages as it needs. ...

“We’re certified, so we should be fine.” It’s an easy thing to believe on the side that builds the website. Yet even on sites with a certification mark, it’s common for a screen reader user to fail to find the log-in button, or a low-vision user to be unable to read gray text on gray. Having been audited once, and being usable right now, are two different stories. The tool I built to shrink that gap is A11y Check. Put in a URL and it audits the accessibility automatically, then hands back a report and a fix guide. This article covers what A11y Check does, how it works, and why I opened the code. Let’s start with where it came from. ...