Tools

Please Note: Many of the resources listed below were obtained from the NYS Forum for Information Resource Management, IT Accessibility Committee website (http://www.nysfirm.org/committees/access/resources/5-13-04/)

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• A-Prompt Project (http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/) - According to the web site, "A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) has been developed to assist Web authors in improving the accessibility and usability of HTML documents. By checking Web pages for barriers to accessibility and making repairs to correct any problems, A-Prompt will ensure that you are reaching the widest possible audience. A-Prompt is based on the guidelines for accessibility which are created and maintained by the Web Access Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium."
   
• AnyBrowser.com (http://www.anybrowser.com/) - This site contains tools to create meta tags, check your page in various screen sizes, validate your HTML, check your links, and see how your site my be listed by search engine spiders.
   
• Authoring Tools for Macromedia Dreamweaver/MX users:
  • Accessible Solutions Home Page
  • Accessibility Suite for W3C/WCAG 1.0 - Extension developed by Usable Net.
  • Accessibility Suite for Section 508 - Extension developed by Usable Net.
     
• Authoring Tools for Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Users:
  • FrontPage 2003 Accessibility
  • Get a Web Site Accessibility Verification Tool for FrontPage - Free version of AccVerify

C

• Checkpoint Checker - http://rdf.pair.com/checker.htm

L

• LYNX - LYNX is a text browser, which is useful in checking your page to see an approximation of what your page will look like to a screen reader. Lynx is plain vanilla — no scripting, no style sheets, no plug-ins. This link takes you to a .zip file of the program, which you must download, extract and install. NOTE: Because it is sometimes difficult to find a Windows-compatible copy of Lynx, we have provided a copy of the .zip file on this site: http://www.nysfirm.org/committees/access/resources/5-13-04/lynx/ly283rel.zip

T

• TIDY (http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/) - Clean up HTML code.

V

• VisCheck (http://vischeck.com/index.php3) - This tool simulates colorblind vision.

W

• W3C CSS Validation Service (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/) 
   
• W3C HTML Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org/) - This service will check HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
   
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: A Collection of Tools (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html) - This site provides a collection of existing web evaluation, repair, and transformation tools.
   
• WAVE - Web Accessibility Tool (http://www.wave.webaim.org/)
   
• WebAIM: Cognitive Disability Simulation (http://www.webaim.org/tutorials/simulations/cogsim/) - According to the web site, "The goal of the simulation is to illustrate the design principles that make it easier for individuals to access the information on a web site. After finishing the simulation, you will be able to read about some of the things that you can do to create web pages that are accessible to individuals with cognitive disabilities."
   
• WebAIM Low Vision Simulation - http://www.webaim.org/simulations/lowvis.html
   
• WebAIM: Screen Reader Simulation (http://www.webaim.org/tutorials/simulations/screenreader/) - According to the web site, "This simulation will help you to understand what it is like for a person with visual impairments to access the Internet using a software program called a "screen reader."
   
• Web Accessibility Toolbar - Interfaces nicely with Microsoft's Internet Explorer Browser. From Accessible Information Solutions. http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/

Last Update: Tuesday, May 02, 2006