Tools for testing Site accessibility

One of the most important goals of your Web site is to get as many visitors as possible, but do you know the real accessibility of your site (also called accessibility)? Are color-blind visitors able to access the normal? Are all the scripts on the Web page working? Your color may look good on the whole, but can the contrast color be enough to keep the page readable? The following 12 tools are designed to answer these texts, and it is certain that if you are considering the accessibility of the site, these tools are worth your time, though they may give you the same answer every time.

Advice: Although these tools are useful and can help you identify a lot of problems, you can never be too superstitious about all the advice they give, and more as a starting point for starting the path to a smooth running web site.

ACTF Adesigner: An extension of the open source Eclipse development platform, which is designed to test accessibility for visually impaired people. However, it is only available for Windows XP and more versions of the system.

adobe Dreamweaver CS4 accessibility: For designers using Adobe's Dreamweaver CS4, you can select whatever you want to test with a tool authorization and get a bug test report.

Contrast Analyser: It's not easy to choose the right color for your Web site, and you have to make sure that the colors are properly matched to make it easy to read. Colour Contrast analyser allows you to distinguish between the two colors, and to set up easy to read sites for visually impaired visitors such as color blindness.

Cynthia Says: Cynthia Says is a product of Hisoftware, just enter your URL and you can get a copy of it by following section 508 and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web page Content Accessibility Guidelines-priority 1, 2 and 3 standard-tested web site reports.

Firefox accessibility Extension: From Icita , this Firefox toolbar includes a large set of tools to detect the appearance of websites when visually impaired, including text, scripts, Styles, and so on.

Functional Accessibility Evaluator: provides you with a wide range of site-free assessment reports, and then gives you an overview of the color-coded results page that you have to understand. If you want to learn more information just click on each category to view the detailed instructions.

Fujitsu Web Accessibility Inspector: It focuses on checking the Web pages that may appear to the elderly and visually impaired, which you must download to use for max OS x or Windows, Then you can point to a local file or a Web site, it will generate a report that seems to be quite long, good to contain all aspects of the test results of the report file.

IBM's Rational Policy Tester accessibility Edition: The only solution to detect web accessibility on Windows. This is a paid solution, IBM's products should not be cheap to go there.

Truwex Online 2.0: It can detect the range including Section 508, WCAG, dead link and so on. Just go to their page, enter the URL, it will output a test report.

Vision Australia: They provide Internet Explorer and Opera toolbars to test your site to ensure that people with visual impairments are friendly.

Wave: Simply enter the URL, upload a file or enter a code snippet, see so tagged elements, you can see the elements around the detection of the feedback information, you can also use the Firefox toolbar or the browser to install WAVE.

Web accessibility Toolbar for opera: used by opera users.