Contents
Local Tools
Hosted Services
- Readability Test
- The readability test analyses a Web page to determine how readable it is.
- CSS Analyser
- The CSS analyser tests for basic accessibility errors such as colour contrast and units of measurement.
- Luminosity Colour Contrast Ratio Analyser
- The luminosity colour contrast ratio analyser tests whether the contrast between the background and the foreground is sufficient.
- Image Analyser
- The image analyser tests Web pages to ensure that images have been specified properly.
- Link Analyser
- The link analyser lists all links on a page with an icon to indicate whether or not the link resolved successfully.
Downloadable Tools
Greasemonkey User Scripts
- Form Help
- A configurable Greasemonkey user script that allows textarea controls to be resized to suit the user's preference, and allows dropdown lists to optionally be permanently expanded to the user's preference.
- Heading Navigation
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A configurable Greasemonkey user script that allows keyboard navigation to headings. Headings can either be navigated by the heading level, for example, all
h2elements, or by any level. - Manage Access Keys
- A Greasemonkey user script that displays the access keys on a web page, along with a facility to edit them to suit the preferences of the user.
Firefox Extensions
- Colour Contrast Extension
- A Mozilla/Firefox extension that reveals the colour contrast between the foreground and background colours of all elements in the DOM.
- Complex Table Inspector
- A Mozilla/Firefox extension to reveal accessibility features in tables. Also available as a bookmarklet for other browsers.
- Glossary of Terms Extension
- A Mozilla/Firefox extension to reveal abbreviations and acronyms added by the author.
Bookmarklets
- Reveal Definitions Bookmarklet
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A bookmarklet that exposes definitions marked up with the
dfnelement as a definition list at the end of the document. - Complex Table Inspector Bookmarklet
- Reveal accessibility features in tables.
- Accessible Style Sheet Bookmarklet
- An article explaining how to create an accessible style sheet bookmarklet, with a usable example at the end.
External Tools
The following is a list of external tools that are useful for web developers.
- Collection of Validators
- From Jens Meiert, an impressive collection of validators and other tools that are useful to web developers in a single resource, along with a site check page to automatically provide a set of links with the correct values for a whole list of useful services.
- Flickering and Photosensitive Epilepsy Test
- A tool that can check a page or individual images to ensure that flickering isn't in the critical range.
- RampWeb Toolbar
- Accessibility toolbar available for Internet Explorer, and as a Mozilla/Firefox extension.
- Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer
- A plugin to help evaluate the accessibility of web pages, from Vision Australia.
- The Web Developer Extension
- An extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla that adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various essential tools for web developers.
- XStandard WYSIWYG Editor
- A robust, standards compliant WYSIWYG editor.