There is no shortage of accessibility tools on the web. The problem is identifying the ones that are really useful. Here is a collection of on-line tools that we use in our day-to-day consultancy work to support accessibility reviews.
Browsers and plugins
- Web accessibility toolbar
- Firefox Web Browser
- Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
- Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension
- Opera Web Browser
- Lynx (text-mode web browser) simulator
Page validators (Accessibility Checkers)
- W3C MarkUp Validation Service
- W3C CSS Validation Service
- W3C Link Checker
- http://508ita.com
- http://www.silktide.com/
- TAW – Web accessibility test
Automated accessibility checkers
- WebXACT Quality & Accessibility Check
- Bobby Online Service
- Cynthia Says
- Wave 3.5
- OCAWA Web Accessibility Expert
Miscellaneous tools
- Vischeck Colour Blindness simulator
- Load time check
- Readability test
- Semantics extractor
- Screen size simulator
Documentation
