Accessibility Web Tools

Web Page Tools

• Web Accessibility Toolbar is freeware and available from
  • Vision Australia
  • Download from Australia
  • The Paciello Group
     
• WebXACT
  Watchfire announced the acquisition (August 6, 2002) of Bobby (now WebXACT). It has limited availability from the web. Bobby was originally developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology.
   
• WAVE 3.0 Accessibility Tool
  Developed by Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology, at Temple University. The Wave is a free Web-based tool that helps users identify page components that should be checked for accessibility.
   
• Web Accessibility Resource Planner (WARP)
  The WARP is a user-friendly, online interface for creating Web accessibility lessons.
   
• CaptionCaster is a software program that allows text captions to be streamed across the internet for any live broadcast.
   
• Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0
  is a tool you can use to remove Office-specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
   
• VisiBone
  • Webmaster's Color Lab
  • Web-Safe Swatch Collections are available for a number of graphic packages.
  • Color Deficient Vision
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• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • HTML Validation Service checks your HTML for missing tags and proper usage.
  • CSS Validation Service checks your Cascading Style Sheets for errors.
  • Link Checker can test your web page links.
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Color Deficiency Tools

• Vischeck
  Color Blindness Simulator. This utility simulates how your images and web pages will look to people with various types of color deficiency.
  4 ways to use the Vischeck color simulator.
  
  • Single images
  • Web Page URL
  • Download the Java version for ImageJ
  • Download the Photoshop filter for Windows
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• Lighthouse International
  a leading resource worldwide on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation.
  • Effective Color Contrast
  • Making Text Legible
  (End of Lighthouse International Tools)