In development — early access list open

Your contrast audit, already written up.

Find every colour contrast failure on a page. Then hand your client a report that explains each one.

ContrastForge is a Chrome extension for the people who get paid to do accessibility work — freelance auditors, agency designers, and the developers who inherit the remediation ticket.

The problem isn't finding the failures

Checking a colour pair takes seconds. Producing the deliverable is the part that eats an afternoon: screenshotting each failure, looking up which WCAG criterion it breaches, writing the plain-English explanation, working out a passing colour that still looks like the brand, and assembling it into something a client will actually read.

ContrastForge scans the whole page and writes that document for you.

Exports as a PDF report — with your own logo and business name on it — or as CSV for your issue tracker. Colours, ratios and element selectors shown here are illustrative.

What it does

• Scans the whole page — every text and background pair, not one colour at a time.
• Gets the hard cases right. Semi-transparent overlays, stacked layers and gradients are where other tools report the wrong colour. Gradients are measured at their worst point, not one arbitrary pixel. Text over a background image is listed as unchecked rather than guessed at — those pixels aren't knowable from the page's styles, and a made-up number in a client report is worse than an honest gap.
• Click any failure to highlight the element on the page.
• Suggests a passing colour that keeps the hue, so the fix survives the brand conversation.
• Audits a whole list of pages at once — paste the URLs, get one combined report with every finding labelled by the page it came from. (This one asks permission to open the pages you list; decline and everything else still works.)
• Keeps a local scan history — re-scan after the developers have been through, and you can see the failure count come down.
• Checks form controls too — input and button boundaries that are too faint to see (WCAG 1.4.11), not just text.
• Exports a white-labelled report as PDF, or a CSV for your issue tracker.

What it doesn't do

It checks colour contrast. It is not a full WCAG audit — it won't test keyboard navigation, focus order, headings, alt text or ARIA, and it won't tell you a site is compliant. Tools like axe and WAVE cover the broader ruleset and are free; use them alongside this. ContrastForge exists because none of them turn what they find into something you can put in front of a client.

Privacy

The scan runs entirely in your browser, on the tab you're looking at. Nothing about the pages you audit is uploaded, stored by us, or seen by anyone. The extension requests access only to the tab you're actively scanning — not to every site you visit. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking.