Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive listing of accessibility tools. Inclusion or mention of any software in this presentation does not constitute an endorsement by either the federal government or the presenter. Software referenced in this presentation is simply a sampling of available low cost (less than $100) testing and evaluation or repair tools for web content developers. Compiled by Ron Jones.
Opera web browser - free
http://www.opera.comLynx text only browser - free
http://lynx.browser.org/Lynx on-line viewer - free
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
JAWS - free demo available
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Window Eyes - free demo available
http://www.gwmicro.com/HAL - free demo available
http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk/OutSpoken - free demo available
http://www.aagi.com/
WeMedia - free
http://www.wemedia.com/Simply Web - free
http://www.econointl.com/sw/IBM HomePage Reader - free demo available
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/Connect Outloud - free demo available
http://www.freedomscientific.com/
outSPOKEN, a screen reader software - free demo available
inLARGE, a screen magnification software - free demo available
http://www.aagi.com/Wanna-Be Web Browser (similar to Lynx) - free
http://mindstory.com/wb2/
Duxbury Braille
Translator (DBT), Braille translation software
free demo available
http://www.duxburysystems.com/
Linux
Accessibility Resources
Linux Accessibility Resource Site: http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/
Colorblindness
Vischeck – online simulation of color deficiency (Checks individual images and web
pages) - free
http://www.vischeck.com/
Vischeck Photoshop
Plug-In for Windows (free)
http://www.vischeck.com/
VischeckJ and ImageJ (free)
Windows,
Macintosh OS, and Linux
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html
Dreamweaver
508 Accessibility
Suite
Check Page for W3C
Accessibility
Several Accessible
Image Extensions
http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/exchange/main.jsp?product=dreamweaver
Flash – requires
Flash MX
http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/exchange/main.jsp?product=flash
FrontPage
AccVerify SE - free
http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/
Adobe GoLive
6.0
InSight LE - free
http://access.adobe.com/golivemain.html
"Bobby" - free
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
"Ask Alice" - free
http://askalice.ssbtechnologies.com:8080/askalice/index.html
The WAVE - free
http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
LIFT on-line (5 pages free)
http://www.accessiblenet.com/accessibilityproducts.html
Accessible
table builder - (Requires use of Internet Explorer 5+)
http://www23.brinkster.com/favelets/accessible-table-builder-intro.htm
Accessible
Form Element Generator - (Requires use of Internet Explorer 5+)
http://www23.brinkster.com/favelets/form-code-builder.html
Bobby Worldwide -
Single User copy:
$99.00
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/pricing.jsp
A-Prompt Toolkit - Free
Windows 95/98/NT/2000
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
HTML Tidy - free
Fixes HTML-tagging
mistakes automatically, also works on hard-to-read markup generated by
specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify
where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible
to people with disabilities.
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
HTML Kit - free
text editor designed
to help HTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, validate, preview
and publish Web pages. Includes syntax highlighting for HTML, XHTML, XML,
CSS, XSLT, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, ASP, Java, Perl, Python, C/C++, Visual
Basic, Pascal/Delphi, Lisp, SQL, INI/Conf, and more
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
MAGpie - free
Media Access Generator
(MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
A tool for adding
captions to Flash using MAGpie's XML data file. This tool is available
for beta testing along with MAGpie, but will eventually be downloadable
from the Macromedia Extension site.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie2_captioner.html
Examples of captioned
multimedia:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html
Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
Convert PDF
file to simple HTML on-line
http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html
If the Adobe®
PDF is on the Internet, you can mail the URL of the PDF in the body of
an e-mail message and receive the file back via e-mail as either text or
HTML
Email
to pdf2txt@adobe.com (for plain text) or to pdf2html@adobe.com
If the Adobe®
PDF is on a local drive, you can mail the PDF file as a MIME attachment
and receive the file back via e-mail as either text or HTML
Email
to pdf2txt@adobe.com (for plain text) or to pdf2html@adobe.com
A service hosted
by Trace Research Center also allows you to convert Adobe PDF documents.
You can either mail
the URL of the Adobe PDF or attach the Adobe PDF document itself to your
e-mail message and send it to pdf2txt@sun.trace.wisc.edu (for plain text)
or to pdf2html@sun.trace.wisc.edu (for HTML). The convertor will mail back
the translation of the PDF file.
On-line info
on making PowerPoint presentations web accessible
http://www.webaim.org/howto/powerpoint
Microsoft PowerPoint
WWW Publishing Accessibility Wizard - free
http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/ppt/
- "Grayscale the Page" - removes colors from the page so you can see what the page will look like to a color-blind person.
- "Kill Style Sheets" - removes style sheets from the page. Accessibility guidelines require that the page still be readable without style sheets.
- "IMGs without
ALTs" - displays the addresses of the images on the page that have
empty ALT (alternative) text. Lack of equivalent descriptive text for an
image is one of the most common impediment to accessibility.