Is Your Website Accessible?
"Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also make your Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including older users. It will also enable people to access Web content using many different devices - including a wide variety of assistive technologies."
Recommended Reading
Cognitive Accessibility Online
Posted under: Tools
Written by
Dawn Gregg
For most of us, the Internet is an important part of our daily lives. It is a source of news, information and entertainment. However, for individuals with cognitive disabilities, especially those with severe cognitive disabilities, the Internet is difficult, if not impossible to use.
Read more at
http://yaccessibilityblog.com/wp/cognitive-accessibility-online.html
Screen Readers
Posted under: Tools
Accessibility Validation Checkers
Posted under: Tools
Note: These tools alone should not be relied upon to assess a sites accessibility, a thorough knowledge of WCAG 2.0 is needed in order to evaluate manual checkpoints, however it does give a good starting point.
- ATRC Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker
- Total Validator Service
- The W3C Markup Validation Service
- The W3C CSS Validation Service
Colour Analysis
Posted under: Tools
- AccessColor – Online Tool for Colour Contrast
- Contrast Analyser, Version 2.2
- Accessibility Color Wheel
- Vischeck, colour blindness simulator
Captioning
Posted under: Tools
- CapScribe Desktop – Available Now for Captioning and Describing Your Videos
- Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
