Cupper: A Tool for Creating Accessible Documentation

I recently stumbled across a tool for creating accessible documentation, and while I haven’t had a chance to experiment with it, I’ll be putting it on my list of things to test drive this summer. Cupper, created by accessibility consultants the Paciello Group, bills itself as "An Inclusive Documentation Builder." If you have a tool or project that needs digital documentation, and you want to make sure that the documentation is usable by the widest range of people, then making sure your documentation is accessible is important. This is where Cupper comes in. According to the Paciello Group’s blog:

Cupper is a high performance generator of rich and accessible documentation sites in the form of progressive web applications (PWAs). That means the documentation sites you create can be saved to your devices and read offline. Because Cupper instances exist as Github repositories, this is possible out of the box. When you commit and push changes to your content, your Github Pages site is updated and a new service worker is installed.

To learn more, you can

• Read the documentation, or

• Read specifically about the installation process, and then

• Read even more, about setup, and possibly

• Fork and then play around with the Cupper repository on Github.

I hope to return to this topic in a few months, so stay tuned!

Got any experience with Cupper? Got any advice about your favorite strategies for creating documentation? Please share in the comments!