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.com

Lynx 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/

• Page dependencies - Lists page dependencies, including external script files (.js), external style sheets (.css) and images. Please note: this script is over the 508 character limit and may not work on all browsers.
• ALT attributes - show all - Displays all images on the page, alongside their alt attributes - useful for checking that alt attributes match up with image.
• ALT attributes - images missing alt attribute - Displays all images on the page that do not have any alt attributes - useful accessibility checking tool.
• Disable stylesheets
• Show tables - Places a solid black border around any table in the current document (but not cells within the table)
• Show table headings <TH> - Highlights table headings (yellow text on black background) - use this to see if table headings really are <th> tags or whether plain old <td>s were used instead.
• Show table cells <TD> - Highlights table cells - changes border colour, background/text colour and adds padding to cell contents.
• Images list - Displays a list of all images on the page, excluding invisible spacer pixels. Also shows the file size for each image alongside the image
• Links - titles and hrefs - Shows all links on the page and the contents of the link (text and/or images). Also shows title attributes of each link (if present - very useful for assessing how accessible your links are.
• Show Style sheets - Shows the style rules, as parsed by the browser, in a new window.
• General page stats - General page statistics, including when the page was last updated, what forms and styleSheets are linked, how many images, how many links and so on.
• Form fields and values - Displays all form attributes, for every form on a page.
• Meta data - Shows all meta tag data for the page

- "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.