# Basic Web Accessibility Tests: Turn Your Monitor to Grayscale

DevFeed: [Basic Web Accessibility Tests: Turn Your Monitor to Grayscale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/basic-web-accessibility-tests-turn-your-monitor-to-grayscale-36122.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.boia.org/blog/basic-web-accessibility-tests-turn-your-monitor-to-grayscale>)

Author: Vince

Published: 2025-09-05T16:15:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog-Main](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-main.md>)

Topics: [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [Web Accessibility (a11y)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-accessibility.md>), [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-content-accessibility-guidelines.md>), [color](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/color.md>), [digital accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-accessibility.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [accessibility-guidelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility-guidelines.md>), [accessibility-ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility-ux.md>), [color](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/color.md>), [digital-accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-accessibility.md>), [people-with-disabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/people-with-disabilities.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>), [wcag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wcag.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-accessibility.md>), [web-content-accessibility-guidelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-content-accessibility-guidelines.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how viewing a website in grayscale can help reveal accessibility problems caused by using color as the only way to convey information. It places the exercise within a broader strategy combining automated and manual testing for WCAG Level AA conformance and gives examples involving links, form fields, charts, and status indicators.

## Source excerpt

To truly test content for accessibility, you need an extensive strategy that combines automated testing with manual tests. You should have a goal in mind -- for most websites, that's Level AA conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).