Comments on: 12 Tools To Check Your Site’s Accessibility

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:43:04 +0000

By: Usenet Trial

Usenet Trial — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:29:48 +0000

Great idea, but will this work over the long run?

By: alanc

alanc — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:49:19 +0000

Thanks for an informative post.

I knew of the old aDesigner from IBM’s Alphaworks, but I hadn’t noticed it’s migration to the Eclipse ACTF project.

I hadn’t heard of the freeware Fujitsu tools, before, either. Will have to check it out.

By: rguy84

rguy84 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:44:48 +0000

Glad I skimmed the comments, but the one Tysson listed is a pretty big one, I was shocked not to see it.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:22:35 +0000

checks webs against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0)

By: Wes Dillon from Deque

Wes Dillon from Deque — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:58:05 +0000

I wanted to offer another tool for the community’s use – Here is the link to the free version of Worldspace, our enterprise-level compliance tool. It is the tool named in the settlement between the National Federation of the Blind and Target.com to monitor Target.com http://nfbtargetlawsuit.com/final_settlement.html

http://worldspace.deque.com/

It offers the capability to scan a URL, local file or source code against Section 508 or the three levels of WCAG.

We will be continually adding new features which we will post on this page.

Also, our Director of solutions has posted on his blog how you can get a plug-in for your Google toolbar or Firefox browser.: http://dmusser.blogspot.com/2008/09/creation-of-google-toolbar-button-for.html

If helpful for any of your accessibility needs, we’d love to hear about it – http://www.deque.com

By: Tyssen

Tyssen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:11:59 +0000

A couple of other useful ones are the Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar and Total Validator extensions for Firefox.

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:38:24 +0000

Color Scheme Designer allows you to see what colors look like for different kinds of color-blindness under “Visual Simulation” which is in the nav bar — top right.

By: Deaf Web Professional

Deaf Web Professional — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:56:47 +0000

It’s a nice article.. However, there’s an important segment that is ignored – 32 millions of deaf and hard of hearing Americans, including myself. With those increasing videos without captions and podcasts without transcripts, they are not accessible for us and leave us frustrated. Also, they are hard to understand for those whose English isn’t first language – that’s a pretty significant number of users, too. Not to mention other users who can’t access audio information in a noisy environment or mute the sound to make it quiet. According to some studies, over 100 million Americans (over 1/3 of US population) need that kind of accessibility. That’s something to think about.

By: Mike Paciello, TPG

Mike Paciello, TPG — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:47:18 +0000

Please note that the Web Accessibility toolbar is also available for IE (http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html). And we are about to release a new version for FireFox.