Accessibility Resources
This resource page was last updated on 9/11/2006.
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Web Accessibility Validation Tools
Accessibility Color Wheel
Simulates color deficiency and tells you if contrast/difference in brightness is good or bad. Contains demonstrations of how color combinations may look to users suffering from varying types of color-blindness
Accessibility Prompt
A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs. A-Prompt will ensure that client Web sites are accessible to the largest number of potential visitors including those with disabilities. The tool's evaluation and repair checklist is based on accessibility guidelines created and maintained by the Web Access Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Accessibility Test
A free tool to test your site for accessibility.
AccVerify
This program will analyze your Web site and produce a reports telling you what and where accessibility problems are. It's free for anyone at a Wisconsin university or technical college.
Another Accessibility Test
A program that test your site for accessibility and helps with repairs.
Bobby
Bobby is a comprehensive web accessibility software tool designed to help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines. Bobby was created at CAST, a not-for-profit research and development organization whose goal is to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through the innovative use of computer technology. To get more information about Bobby, go to:
Cynthia
Cynthia is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines. The main purpose of this portal is to educate web site developers in the development Web Based content that is accessible to all. This online test only validates one page at a time.
The goal of this service to provide a free, well supported, accessibility validation tester for those who need to test a page and to expose them to the underlying technology and the benefits... of using the technology.
Evaluation Tools
This is a review of many of the commercial web evaluation tools. The review was done by the Web Accessibility Research Projects at Plymouth University (UK).
Fangs
Fangs creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by one of the modern body-part named screen readers. See how a screader reader would read your Web page.
HiSoftware Tools
Test and Repair for Accessibility & Usability: Section 508, WCAG 1.0 (Priority 1-3), WCAG 2.0, CLF, XAG
LIFT Online
UsableNet's LIFT Online is a tool that allows webmasters and IT coordinators to easily monitor and maintain usable and accessible websites. It checks a website to see if it meets accessibility guidelines.
Lynx Demonstration
This tool simulates what your page would look like in LYNX, a text-only web browser.
Macromedia's Accessibility Page
Macromedia's accessibility Web pages with information on their products and accessibility issues.
Opera Web Browser
Opera is not an accessibility validator per se—it's a Web browser, much like Internet Explorer or Netscape—but it can act like an accessibility validator if you know how to use it that way.
Text Reader Demonstration
This tools shows you what your page looks like to a text reader.
WAVE
Provides an online web accessibility test for your webpage
Web Developer Extension
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It's extremely useful to any Web developer and can help with assessing accessibility.
Web Developer Toolbar
Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.