Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation

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A-Checker (version 0.8.6)
ATRC University Of Toronto, 1 January 2006
Description: Online accessibility checker that tests web pages for
conformance to various accessibility guidelines.
Language: English, Italian
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, Stanca Act, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Open Source
A-Prompt (version 1.06)
ATRC University Of Toronto, 1 December 2004
Description: Accessibility evaluation and repair tool.
Language: English, French, German, Korean
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Acc - an Accessibility Evaluator (version 1.0)
, 24 August 2006
Description: Acc - an Accessibility Evaluator is a developing Firefox
Extension, which is capable of evaluating and reporting some accessibility
criteria. Acc - an Accessibility Evaluator can spot some basic explicit HTML-
coding flaws like other tools, but it includes features like: Visual layout
extraction implementation; Basic scalability test; Deeply nested layout
tables test; Skip to Main Content link check; Navigation consistency check
 compared to previous page; and Scripted page evaluation.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
AccessColor (version 1.0)
AccessKeys.org, 10 August 2006
Description: AccessColor is a free online tool which analyses the internal
and external CSS of a web page to test the colour contrast and colour
brightness between the text and background colours. It uses the algorithm
recommended by the W3C at http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
Accessibility Check (version 1.0)
etre, 1 August 2005
Description: Etre's Accessibility Check evaluates your page against subset of
the WAI guidelines. These guidelines form the basis of most global
legislation relating to accessibility.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Accessibility color wheel (version 1.0)

Description: A tool that helps in the choice of a color pair

(text/background) to use in a web page. It simulates three kinds of colour
blindness and it shows the result of w3c algorithms, that compute contrast
and difference of brightness, applied to the chosen colours. The
accessibility color wheel shows if the color pair is "good" from an
accessibility point of wiew.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
 Assistance: Step-by-step evaluations
Online service: Online checker
License: Open Source
Accessibility Wizard (version 1.0)
Binary Blue, 24 June 2003
Description: The Accessibility Wizard is a tool for web developers and
project teams. It breaks down the WAI Checkpoints into individual tasks for
each job role in a development team. Every member of a development
team is directed to implement the WAI Checkpoints at a specified
conformance level (A,AA or AAA). This is a sure way of meeting accessibility
conformance. A web client that supports the Flash 6 (or higher) plugin is
the minimum requirement to use the wizard.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Step-by-step evaluations
Runtime: Flash
License: Free Software
AccessValet (version 1.2)
WebThing Ltd
Description: Analyses HTML and XHTML pages. Reports deprecated and
invalid markup, and violations of accessibility guidelines. Supports a choice
of detailed report formats for developers (including full cross-referencing of
warnings to the markup and to the guidelines tested), and executive
summary reports for management/QA.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Server installation
Operating system: Windows, Linux
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
API interface: C / C++ / C#
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
AccMonitor (version CS2 1.0.0.21)
HiSoftware, 1 January 2005
Description: AccMonitor by HiSoftware is designed for Web site Accessibility
Management. AccMonitor Server provides an enterprise test management
system that enables validation of content for compliance with standards-
based and organizational policies. AccMonitor provides a comprehensive
 interface for testing content against standards for quality, search and
accessibility. It monitors the accessibility status of an entire Web site or a
subdirectory of the site around the clock for WCAG priorities 1 to 3 as well
as section 508 requirements. You can send email alerts to any number of
recipients, or get results provided as EARL. AccMonitor can test Web Sites
around the clock and report Accessibility issues based on development,
content management requirements and scheduling.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, SVG
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL, CSV
License: Commercial, Enterprise
AccRepair (version DS2 2005/8.x)
HiSoftware
Description: AccRepair by HiSoftware provides for the verification and
correction of Accessibility policy and standards required for Web sites.
AccRepair supports the WCAG Guidelines at all three levels, as well as
Section 508, and through the Usability Test Manager provides usability
testing. AccRepair is designed to work as a standalone client or integrated
with Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Office 2000 and XP. AccRepair includes
a Repair Library Editor allowing for team services and automated repairs of
common accessibility errors, and all the verification functions of AccVerify,
as well as Hi-Caption and metadata management. A developer's kit
including API's and sample source code is available to allow extension or
integration with other products. AccRepair provides out-of-the-box testing
and reporting for Accessibility, Privacy, Metadata and Usability standards. It
also allows users to define and conduct custom tests.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, SVG
Operating system: Windows
Authoring tool: FrontPage
 IDE: Visual Studio
Runtime: .NET
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL, CSV
License: Commercial, Enterprise
AccVerify (version DS2 2005/8.x)
HiSoftware
Description: AccVerify implements programmatic verification and reports
all errors/non-compliance with the standards, plus checklist for criteria
that can't be verified programmatically. Verifies the all else fails text
version. Differentiates between 508 and WCAG. It allows for a variety of
report formats, including EARL, and provides an API for developers to
incorporate it in other projects. AccVerify can run as a standalone product
for Microsoft Windows, or as an extension to Mercury TestDirector and
Microsoft's FrontPage, Office, and .NET server products. AccVerify provides
ability to test transactional pages through script building technology.
AccVerify provides out-of-the-box testing and reporting for Accessibility,
Privacy, Metadata and Usability standards. It also allows users to define and
conduct custom tests.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, SVG
Operating system: Windows
Authoring tool: FrontPage, Flash MX
IDE: Visual Studio
Runtime: .NET
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL, CSV
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Acrobat 7.0 Professional (version 7.0)
Adobe
Description: Acrobat 7.0 Professional has a variety of accessibility checks
for PDF accessibility: 1) the Acrobat "quick check" examines a PDF file for
structure and tags to see if it has the information necessary to make it
accessible as well as checking for inappropriate protection settings; 2) the
Acrobat "full check" list errors and provides suggestions for how to fix them;
3) using the "read out loud" feature assists an assessment of access to all
appropriate content and that the information is presented in an
understandable order.
Language: English
 Formats: PDF
Operating system: Windows
License: Commercial
aDesigner (version 1.10)
IBM, 7 July 2004
Description: The aDesigner is a disability simulator that helps Web
designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually
impaired. Web developers can use aDesigner to test the accessibility and
usability of Web pages for low-vision and blind people. The tool looks at
such elements as the degree of color contrast on the page, the ability of
users to change the font size, the appropriateness of alternate text for
images, and the availability of links in the page to promote navigability.
The tool also checks the pages' compliance with accessibility guidelines.
Language: English, Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, JIS
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
Adobe PDF conversion
Adobe
Description: This conversion service will convert to Adobe PDF files that are
in English and most West European languages to text or HTML. A URL for the
PDF files needs to be provided. Alternatively, local PDF documents can be
emailed to Adobe: to pdf2txt@adobe.com for coversion to plain text; to
pdf2html@adobe.com for conversion to HTML.
Language: English
Repair options: PDF to HTML
Online service: Hosted service
License: Free Software
AnyBrowser (version iii)
AnyBrowser.com
Description: Tools relevant for accessibility include viewing in various
screen sizes and viewing with images are replaced by ALT text. Also
available are HTML validation, link checking, search engine tools, and other
browser compatibility tests.
Language: English
Assistance: Page transformation
 Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
ART Guide (version 1.1)
UB Access, 30 March 2004
Description: The ART Guide - ART reviews sites for compliance with the
international accessibility standards of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). ART also assesses sites against the accessibility requirements that
the U.S. and other national governments demand for their Websites and for
those of their vendors. Going beyond current technologies, ART also
proposes clear and simple-to-implement solutions to possible violations of
these standards.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
ART Simulator (version 1.1)
UB Access, 30 March 2004
Description: The ART Simulator - simulates a site in different ways to help
developers gauge how easily the disabled can use the site. The simulator,
the first tool of its type, serves two critical purposes: It enables site owners
and developers to both experience first-hand the barriers to accessibility
faced by the disabled and to better understand how to improve disabled
users experience.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Bobby (version 5.3)
Watchfire, 14 March 2005
Description: Watchfire® Bobby™ 5.0 is a web accessibility desktop testing
tool designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage
compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, including Section 508 of
the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and the W3C's Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG). Bobby spiders through a website and tests to see if it
meets accessibility requirements, including readability by screen readers,
 the provision of text equivalents for all images, animated elements and
audio and video displays. During a scan, Bobby checks HTML against select
accessibility guidelines and then reports on the accessibility of each web
page.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
License: Commercial
CC for Flash component (version 2.0.1)
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at
WGBH, 21 June 2007
Description: The CC for Flash component is a free tool that developers can
add to their Flash projects to provide the display of searchable, multi-
language captions that are synchronized to Flash video, animation, or sound
objects. The component works in the following authoring environments:
Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, and Flash CS3 (ActionScript 2.0 projects only).
Language: English
Repair options: Captioning
Authoring tool: Flash MX
Runtime: Flash
License: Free Software
ccMP3Player (version 1.0.1)
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at
WGBH, 21 June 2007
Description: ccMP3Player is a free Flash-based MP3 player that can be
embedded in Web pages to play back MP3 audio files along with their
corresponding captions. External caption files can be formatted in either
DFXP or QTtext. Accessibility features have been built in for screen-reader
users and those requiring keyboard access. ccMP3Player is viewable in
browsers containing the Flash Player 8 (or higher) plug-in.
Language: English
Repair options: Captioning
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari
License: Free Software
ccPlayer (version 2.0.1)
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at
WGBH, 21 June 2007
Description: ccPlayer is a free Flash video player that can be embedded in
 Web pages in order to display Flash video along with its corresponding
captions. Captions can either be embedded in the video or contained in
external DFXP- or QTtext-formatted files. ccPlayer also allows viewers to
change to other caption languages that may be available in DFXP caption
files. Accessibility features have been [built in] for [screen-reader] users
and those requiring keyboard access. ccPlayer is viewable in browsers
containing the Flash Player 8 (or higher) plug-in.
Language: English
Repair options: Captioning
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari
License: Free Software
Color Filter
AWARE
Description: Several filters to manipulate images and other file types to see
how they may appear for other users.
Language: English
Formats: CSS
Online service: Online checker
Color Laboratory
AWARE Center
Description: This color laboratory allows you to select colors and see how
they appear next to one another, and in various foreground/background
combinations. It also allows you to see those colors as they might appear to
color-blind users.
Language: English
Online service: Online checker
ColorDoctor (version 2.1)
Fujitsu Limited, 18 January 2008
Description: ColorDoctor is a simulator that can check color accessibility. It
converts any images displayed on the screen such as websites and other
presentation contents into gray scale or colors that can be perceived by
people with color blindness. This software was awarded the universal design
award 08.
Language: English, Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, JIS
Operating system: Windows
Runtime: .NET
License: Free Software
Colorfield Insight
Colorfield
Description: Colorfield Insight is a Photoshop plug-in that allows designers
 to predict image legibility for color deficient viewers by accurately
simulating color blindness. Allows designers to model and predict image
legibility for color deficient viewers.
Language: English
Operating system: MacOS
Authoring tool: Photoshop
License: Commercial
ColorSelector (version 5.1)
Fujitsu Limited, 18 January 2008
Description: ColorSelector can evaluate whether the selected color
combinations between text and background are easily viewed by people
with cataracts or color blindness at the term of developing websites and
other presentation contents. Furthermore, it can display the most
appropriate combination. In this manner, it assists in the creation of visual
contents with a high level of accessibility. This software was awarded the
universal design award 08.
Language: Chinese (Simplified), English, Japanese, Korean
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, JIS
Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Runtime: Java
License: Free Software
Colour Blindness Check
Q42, 11 March 2002
Description: Colour Blind Check is a little tool for people to test their
webpages with. It re-colorizes any webpage you like into a palette that
closely resembles the typical palette available to a person having a
red/green color vision deficiency. (It approximates to Protanopia.)
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Page transformation
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Colour Blindness Simulator (version 1.0)
etre, 1 December 2005
Description: One in twenty people have some form of colour vision
deficiency. Etre's Colour Blindness Simulator allows you to upload an image
to experience it as colour blind users may.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Colour Check (version 1.0)
 etre, 1 December 2005
Description: Etre's Colour Check determines the colour difference and
contrast between any two colours to maximumise readability.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Colour Contrast Analyser (version 1.0)
Juicy Studio, 24 June 2003
Description: This colour contrast analyser is provided to allow you to check
the contrast of two colours using the W3C's colour contrast algorithm
(http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast) by specifying the colours
directly. It calculates the difference in colour and the difference in
brightness of the foreground and background colours, and indicates if they
meet the threshold requirements.
Language: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Japanese, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Colour Contrast Analyser (version 1.0)
Vision Australia & WAT-C, 4 February 2005
Description: The Colour Contrast Analyser is a tool for checking foreground
& background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour
visibility for conformance with Checkpoint 2.2 of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. It determines colour visibility based on
algorithms suggested by the W3C - Two colors are considered to provide
good colour visibility if the brightness difference and the colour difference
between the two colors are greater than a set range. In addition to
analyzing contrast for normal vision it also calculates results for three types
of colour blindness (Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia).
Language: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
(Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Polish, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, BITV
Assistance: In-page feedback
Operating system: Windows
License: Free Software
Colour Contrast Analyser (version 2.0)
WAT-C, 15 May 2007
Description: It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background
colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It
 also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions
such as colour blindness.
Language: English, French, Italian
Assistance: Generating Reports
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, Images, SMIL, SVG
Operating system: Windows
Reports: Text
License: Free Software
Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension (version 0.1)
Juicy Studio, 12 February 2006
Description: The Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox extension lists colour
combinations used in the document in a table that summarises the
foreground colour, background colour, luminosity contrast ratio, and the
colour difference and brightness difference used in the algorithm suggested
in the 26th of April 2000 working draft for Accessibility Evaluation and
Repair Tools (AERT). Each element is also listed with its parent elements,
and class and id attribute values when specified to make it easier to locate
the elements.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
License: Free Software, Open Source
com tab (version 1.5)
Pierre Frederiksen, 5 June 2007
Description: The toolbar is an add-on to FireFox and can be used to: reveal
"headers" and "id" complex data table mark-up; create such mark-up either
manually or automatically; and create a linear version of the data table
content. Complex data table mark-up is needed for screen reader users in
order to make sense of a complex data table. Screen readers support (in
varying degree) complex mark-up.
Language: English
Assistance: Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback, Page
transformation
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Common Look and Feel Self-Assessment Guide
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Description: The CLF Self-Assessment Guide has been developed by the
Treasury Board Secretariat for departments and agencies to determine the
compliance level of their Internet Web sites with the Common Look and
Feel Standards.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Formats: HTML, XHTML
CommonLook Website Testing Tool
NetCentric Technologies Inc.
Description: NetCentric Technologies' CommonLook family of software
products is designed to greatly simplify the process of verifying the
compliance of websites and PDF documents with accessibility and a wide
variety of other standards (including Section 508, Common Look and Feel
and W3C standards). 'Out of the box' and without customization they
provide an immediate solution.
Language: English, French
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF
Operating system: Windows
License: Commercial
Contrast Checker (version 1.0)
Q42, 20 August 2004
Description: The Q42 contrast checker tool enables you to compare the
contrast in a web page. This is done by comparing the text color with its
background for each element with contents. The contrast is determined by
comparing the brightness of the foreground and background color, and the
absolute color difference. Note that this is only a tool for improving
accessibility, not a strict guideline. If you're not sure about the results, you
should consult other methods. There are two ways to integrate the contrast
checker in to your browser - as a bookmarklet (also known as a favelet) to
your browser, or on the context menu (this will provide you with tight
browser integration, even enabling you to run the contrast checker in
frames).
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
 Browser: Internet Explorer
License: Free Software
CSS Analyser (version 1.0)
JuicyStudio, 1 June 2004
Description: This service has been provided to allow you to check the
validity of your CSS against the W3C's validation service, along with a colour
contrast test, and a test to ensure that relevant sizes are specified in
relative units of measurement.
Language: English, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Deque Ramp Ascend (version 5.0)
Deque Inc., 27 January 2005
Description: Deque Ramp Ascend is a Web accessibility evaluation and
repair tool. It checks for compliance against W3C-WCAG 1.0 and Section 508
standards. It combines robust algorithms with user input during evaluation.
Evaluation can be configured to suit individual accessibility policies /
practices. Guided / automated remediation covers all violations including n-
dimensional tables, forms, skip navigation, missing alt tags and SMIL
captioning. Reports are several and include listings of individual violations
as well as summaries across checkpoints / Section 508 rules. Ramp is
accessible with JAWS For Windows and has plug-ins for FrontPage,
Dreamweaver and HomeSite.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification, Captioning
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, HomeSite
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Deque Ramp Grade (version 5.0)
Deque Inc., 27 January 2005
Description: Deque Ramp Grade is a Web accessibility evaluation tool. It
 checks for compliance against W3C-WCAG 1.0 and Section 508 standards. It
combines robust algorithms with user input during evaluation. Evaluation
can be configured to suit individual accessibility policies / practices.
Reports are several and include listings of individual violations as well as
summaries across checkpoints / Section 508 rules. Ramp Grade is accessible
with JAWS For Windows and has plug-ins for FrontPage, Dreamweaver and
HomeSite.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, HomeSite
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Deque Ramp Personal Edition (version 5.0)
Deque Inc., 27 January 2005
Description: Deque Ramp Personal Edition (PE) offers a Low cost way to
learn about accessibility and test web pages for W3C WAI WCAG and Section
508 compliance one Web page at a time. This accessible tool has the same
algorithms for evaluation as Ramp Ascend. Evaluation can be configured to
suit individual accessibility policies / practices. Reports are several. It has
plug-ins for FrontPage, Dreamweaver and HomeSite. Ramp Personal Edition
is available for educational institutions, not for profit organizations and
registered students of Web accessibility courses at no cost under Deque's
One Accessible World Program. (Registration is required).
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, HomeSite
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Free Software, Commercial
Deque Undoc (version 2.01)
Deque Inc., 3 June 2005
Description: Repurposes PDF documents into well-structured HTML and
XML. Transforms embedded images into appropriate format, e.g., EPS, TIF,
PSD or JPEG, GIF and PNG. Supports tagged and untagged PDFs. Output can
be made accessible with Ramp Ascend.
 Language: English
Guidelines: Section 508
Assistance: Page transformation
Repair options: PDF to HTML
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Commercial
Deque Worldspace (version 1.03)
Deque Inc., 11 October 2005
Description: A cross-platform, Java 2 Enterprise Edition driven
collaborative solution provides fully automated accessibility evaluation and
repair management for any organization. The Web based user interface is
intuitive to use.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification, Captioning
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Windows, Linux, Solaris
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Doctor HTML (version v6.1)
Imagiware, Inc.
Description: Doctor HTML is a Web page analysis tool which retrieves an
HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds. The primary focus of
this tool is to provide a clear, easy-to-use report of information that is
relevant for improving your Web page.
Language: English
Formats: CSS, HTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
drempelvrij.nl toolbar (version 1.0)
Stichting Bartimeus Accessibility (with Vision Australia), 6 June 2005
Description: The drempelvrij.nl toolbar is a free and very useful tool which
can be used to check the accessibility of a website. The toolbar can be used
in combination with a step-by-step online guide and a checklist to check
 each of the 16 guidelines of the Quality Mark drempelvrij.nl.
Language: Dutch
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Browser: Internet Explorer
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
EvalAccess (version 2.0)
Laboratory of HCI for Special Needs - UPV/EHU, 9 February 2006
Description: EvalAccess 2.0 is an on-line web accessibility evaluation tool
which has been developed using Web Service technology. Due to its
architecture it can be easily integrated into other applications such as
authoring tools. This tool provides different methods for evaluating web
accessibility: evaluation of a single web page, evaluation of a web site and
evaluation of HTML mark-up. It returns a complete report of errors as a
result of the evaluation.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Free Software
EveryEye
EveryEye Ltd
Description: EveryEye is a software tool for accessible design. If you are an
interactive, software, or media content designer or publisher you can use
EveryEye to see your designs the way older and colour-blind people see
them. You can quickly see the difficulties they will experience and make
sure you get them right for an extra 28% of the population.
Language: English
Assistance: Page transformation
Operating system: Windows
License: Commercial
Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator (version 0.9.3)
 Peter Krantz, 6 June 2005
Description: This Mozilla Firefox extension creates a textual representation
of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen
reader.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, Page
transformation
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Reports: HTML
License: Open Source
Flicker Rate Test for Gif Images (version 1)
Renzo Giust - Crosscode, 15 June 2005
Description: The Flicker Test checks images in a web page for flickering,
rate of flickering and colour contrast. This particularly affects people with
Photosensitive Epilepsy. A URI can be entered in an input field and a report
is generated with detailed reports on each image.
Language: English, Italian, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, JIS, Stanca Act, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Foreground/Background Color Contrast Analyzer (version 1.2)
cactusflower.org, 22 April 2006
Description: Calculates Foreground and Background color contrast and
difference per W3C algorithms. This is a web-based, platform independant
tool. It requires that Javascript is enabled in your browser.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Functional Accessibility Evaluator (version 0.8.4)
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 25 November 2005
Description: The Functional Accessibilit Evaluator analyzes web resources
for markup that is consistent with the use of DRES/CITES HTML best
 practices for development of functionally accessible web resources and
resources that support interoperability. The HTML best practices are not a
new standard, but rather a statement of techniques for implementation of
the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and United States Federal
Government Section 508 standards that not only improve accessibility for
people with disabilities, but also the interoperability of web resources for
everyone so all people benefit by having more options to access and use
web resources.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Free Software, Open Source
Hera (version 2)
Fundación Sidar, 1 January 2005
Description: A web-based system that performs some automated WCAG 1.0
testing, then guides a user through tests which need to be done or
confirmed manually. Hera is multilingual (you can change on the fly), and a
translation interface is available to easily add new languages.Hera
development is ongoing, and is mostly in spanish. The system is written in
PHP and is available for adaptation under the GPL open-source license.
Language: Danish, English, French, Galician, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Romanian, Serbian, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF
Online service: Online checker
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Opera
Reports: HTML, EARL
License: Free Software, Open Source
Hermish
Gareth Slinn, 18 November 2005
Description: HTML accessibility checker.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
 Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML
License: Free Software
Hi-Caption Studio (version 8.0)
HiSoftware, 20 December 2005
Description: From HiSoftware. Hi-Caption Studio 8 provides users with the
ability to create, test and mange captioning for their Windows Media,
RealOne Player, and QuickTime productions. It also integrates the ability to
test, remediate and caption Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia
Flash Professional 8 (now part of Adobe), presentations directly within the
Flash authoring tool. Also available in Spanish (Castellano)
Language: English, Spanish
Repair options: Captioning
Formats: SMIL
Operating system: Windows
Authoring tool: Flash MX
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Commercial
HiSoftware Page Tester
HiSoftware, 1 June 2005
Description: The portal based testing service, powered by AccMonitor
Compliance Server, allows customers to get an immediate and ongoing
"status" of their Web page content quality and accessibility status. It
provides "out-of-the-box" testing and reporting for Accessibility, Alternative
Text Quality, Privacy and Search Engine Optimization Standards. Users
simply enter a URL and press a button to receive their browser based test
result.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Commercial
HiSoftware® Cynthia Says™ Portal
HiSoftwareR, 14 March 2003
Description: The HiSoftware Cynthia Says Web portal is a web content
accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in your
content related to Section 508 standards and/or the WCAG guidelines.
Unlike HiSoftware's Desktop Software, AccVerify, this online test only
 validates one page at a time.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
HTML Validator for Firefox and Mozilla (version .77)
Marc Gueury, 1 January 2006
Description: HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML
validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page
is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details
of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page. The
extension is based on Tidy.
Language: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
License: Free Software, Open Source
HTMLShlEx (version 1.1)
Wrong HTML, 1 February 2004
Description: This tool is Windows shell extension for HTML Documents.
After it is installed, a page's html file can be up-loaded to some validators
from the right-click menu.
Language: Japanese
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
License: Free Software
IBM Rule-based Accessibility Validation Environment (RAVEn) (version 2.0.0)
IBM, 28 February 2007
Description: The IBM Rule-Based Accessibility Validation Environment
(RAVEN) is an innovative suite of tools for inspecting Java and web rich-
client graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and validating them for accessibility.
Non-invasive techniques, like Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP),
Introspection, and the Java Reflection API, are used to validate pre-existing
GUIs at execution time rather than by examining source-code. This tool
 provides the ability to: Validate your static web content and some DHTML
content for accessibility; Inspect and validate your Eclipse plug-in in the
current Eclipse workbench; Inspect and validate your plug-in (and/or
Eclipse itself) in an Eclipse workbench running in a separate JVM; Inspect
and validate your Java application running in a separate JVM; Validate GUI
components under development from the Java Perspective; Launch, test,
and use RAVEN to validate Eclipse plug-ins from your development
environment using the Runtime Workbench ; Define your own validation
rules via external XML files; Persist validation reports.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
IDE: Eclipse
License: Free Software
Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard (version 2.1)
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 1 January 2005
Description: The Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft®
Office provides a simple way to create highly accessible and standards
compliant web versions of Microsoft Office documents (Word, PowerPoint,
Excel) that are more accessible and usable by everyone, including people
with disabilities. The HTML generated by the Wizard supports everyone
from legacy browsers and slow Internet connections to the needs of blind
users with screen readers. The Wizard does this through the support of W3C
XHTML, CSS, & Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the US
federal government's Section 508 accessibility requirements.
Language: English
Repair options: Word to HTML, Excel to HTML, Powerpoint to HTML
Operating system: Windows
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
Image Analyser (version 1.0)
Juicy Studio, 14 July 2003
Description: This service examines all images found on a web page to check
for any accessibility issues. The width, height, alt, and longdesc attributes
are examined for appropriate values.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
imergo® (version 1.2)
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), 1 October
2004
Description: imergo® is a standards compliance and quality assurance tool
targeted to industrial Internet portals from the public and private sector. It
offers: Reliable persistence backend: rules, evaluated documents and
project configuration files are stored in a RDBMS database; Project
management: project progress can be monitored in combination with the
implemented reporting capabilities; Large scale validation of XML and
(X)HTML documents for big Internet portals. The tool validates also CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets); Powerful, flexible and configurable crawler;
Identification of broken links; Easy implementation and configuration of
evaluation rules, flexible composition of evaluation rule-sets; Integration
into Content Management Systems.
Language: English, German, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Runtime: Java, SOA
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
API interface: Java, Web Service
License: Commercial, Enterprise
InFocus Desktop (version 4.2.2)
SSB & BART Group, 30 September 2002
Description: Accessibility testing software that assists in repairing content.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML
License: Commercial
InFocus Enterprise (version 1.2.2)
SSB & BART Group, 30 September 2002
Description: InFocusT Enterprise is an automated web accessibility manager
for administrators and compliance managers. Its simple but powerful web
client delivers detailed reports for scheduled or on-demand tests.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
 Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
Reports: HTML
API interface: SQL
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Kontrasttest
, 23 April 2004
Description: Checks color difference and brightness difference according to
http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast. Colors adjustable with sliding
controllers (scroll bars). Can be used with both mouse and keyboard. Direct
input of hexadecimal values possible. Requires Javascript. Works with IE >=
5.0, IE Mac (5.2), Geckos >= 1.02; Opera >= 7, Safari >= 1.2, Konqueror.
German explanation, but easy to understand without.
Language: German
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, BITV
Assistance: In-page feedback
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux
License: Open Source
Lift For Dreamweaver (version 2.1)
UsableNet, 8 December 2005
Description: Accessibility testing software that is integrated into
Dreamweaver.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver
License: Commercial
Lift For Front Page (version 1.1.2)
UsableNet, 8 December 2005
Description: Accessibility testing integrated with FrontPage.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
 Formats: HTML
Operating system: Windows
Authoring tool: FrontPage
License: Commercial
Lift Machine (version 1.9)
UsableNet, 8 December 2005
Description: LIFT Machine is a server-based application that automatically
scans internal and external websites for over 140 quality, accessibility, and
usability issues.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Linux, Solaris
Reports: HTML
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Lift Online
UsableNet, 8 December 2005
Description: Accessibility and Usability testing solution
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML
Online service: Hosted service
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Reports: HTML
License: Commercial
LIFT Text Transcoder
UsableNet, 8 December 2005
Description: Creates a text equivalent of an HTML page.
Language: English
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
License: Commercial
Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser (version 0.1)
Juicy Studio, 13 November 2005
Description: The Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser (Beta) enables allow
 foreground and background colour combinations to be tested against the
suggested luminosity contrast ratio algorithm
(http://juicystudio.com/article/luminositycontrastratioalgorithm.php)
being considered by the W3C for WCAG 2.0.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Lynx Simulator (version 1.0)
Infoaxia, 25 August 2004
Description: Lynx Simulator is an online free transformation tool which
allows users to simulate a web page and see how it would look when
rendering by a text browser Lynx. In terms of accessibility, you can use this
simulator for checking accessibility aspects such as alternative text and
reading order. You'll be able to find some critical issues without screen
readers.
Language: Japanese
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Lynx viewer
DJ Delorie, 26 December 1999
Description: Simulates how a page will look in the Lynx text browser. Links
on the page can be activated. If you follow links in the resulting page, they
will also be filtered through Lynx viewer. It also handles frames the way
Lynx does. However, doesn't not give menu of the ALT text or URL's of AREA
elemnts like lynx does. Perl Source is posted at the site. Can only be used
on a site that the user has file upload access to.
Language: English, French
Assistance: Page transformation
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software, Open Source
Lynx viewer
Yellowpipe Internet Services
Description: The Lynx Viewer allows webmasters to see what their pages
will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. It is also
presumably, how search engines see your site. In addition to that, it can
help determine if web pages are accessible to the vision impaired. No
restrictions of use
 Language: English
Online service: Online checker
Media Access Generator (MAGpie) (version 2.0.3)
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at
WGBH, 21 June 2007
Description: MAGpie is a free JAVA-based application for creating captions
and audio descriptions for QuickTime, Real, Flash (DFXP-format), and
Windows Media content. MAGpie is available for use on both the Windows
and Mac OS X platforms.
Language: English
Repair options: Captioning
Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Runtime: Java
License: Free Software
Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension (version 0.99.1.1851)
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 25 November 2005
Description: The Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension adds features to
Mozilla or Firefox to make it easier for people with disabilities to view and
navigate web content based on the structural markup used to create the
web page. The Mozilla/Firefox accessibility extension can be used directly
by everyone to navigate the structure of a HTML web resource. It can be
used by authors to check their structural markup to make sure it matches
the actual content structure of the resource.
Language: English, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: In-page feedback, Page transformation
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
License: Free Software, Open Source
NetMechanic
Keynote NetMechanic
Description: Using Keynote NetMechanic services you can improve the
functional integrity of your Web site and optimize your site to be reached
by more potential customers.
Language: English
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
NIST WebMetrics Tool Suite
 NIST, 1 February 2003
Description: Uability and accessibility testing tools for websites: Web Static
Analyzer Tool (WebSAT) - checks HTML against typical usability guidelines.
Web Category Analysis Tool (WebCAT) - helps a usability engineer with web
category analysis/card sort, Web Variable Instrumenter Program (WebVIP)
instruments a website to log of user interaction, Framework for Logging
Usability Data (FLUD) - a file format and parser for representation of user
interaction logs, FLUDViz - produces a 2D visualization of a single user
session, VisVIP - produces a 3D visualization of user navigation paths,
TreeDec - adds navigation aids to website pages. Note: WebMetrics project
is no longer actively supported.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML
Operating system: Windows, Linux
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox
License: Open Source
Ocawa (version 2)
Urbilog/France-Telecom, 1 October 2002
Description: Ocawa runs accessibility tests based on the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines using a built-in expert system. The Ocawa website
offers free single or multiple page site audits with output reports indicating
all inaccessible aspects of a page via precise highlighting of the page
source. For large clients and intranet facilities, an Ocawa Server can be
installed for unlimited testing. Shortly, a new version of Ocawa (V2.5) will
display the French ADAE rules or the WAI rules more explicitly in the
reports. Ocawa was developped by Urbilog and France Telecom R & D.
Language: English, French
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker, Hosted service, Server installation
Reports: HTML
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
Office 2000 HTML Filter (version 2.0)
Microsoft, 1 January 2000
Description: The Office HTML Filter is a tool you can use to remove Office-
specific markup tags embedded in Office 2000 documents saved as
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Once you have completed editing an
HTML document in Word 2000 or Excel 2000, you can use the Office HTML
 Filter to remove the Office-specific markup tags from the final copy of the
HTML document. Features of V2.0 include: control over which types of
markup tags are removed; export a cascading style sheet file based on a
Word 2000 document; copy any fragment of a Word document as HTML.
Language: English
Repair options: Word to HTML
License: Free Software
Page Valet
WebThing Ltd
Description: Formal validation of HTML and XML, based on an Apache
module (available under the GPL). Choice of report formats including cross-
referencing errors to the code. Backend parsers supported are OpenSP
(SGML/HTML, the same as the W3C validator) and Xerces (offering full XML
support).
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML, SMIL, SVG
Online service: Online checker, Server installation
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
License: Free Software, Open Source
PEAT - Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (version 0.2 (beta))
Trace R & D Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 13 April 2006
Description: Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT) is a free,
downloadable tool, available from the Trace Center at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison that allows web content to be tested for compliance
with these guidelines. The tool creates a recording of a computer monitor
as you use it. With this screen capture as input, PEAT conducts luminance
flash and red flash evaluations to determine risk of seizure-provoking
content. The analysis uses algorithms developed specifically for web and
computer applications by the Trace Center, Dr. Graham Harding, and
Cambridge Research Systems working together, and is based on Dr.
Harding's extensive research on photosensitive seizure disorders.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Operating system: Windows
License: Free Software
Readability index calculator
Peter Krantz, 9 September 2005
Description: A simple tool where you can calculate a readability index
 score for a text of your choice. The calculator uses the following formulas:
English: Flesch-Kincaid reading ease and grade level; Spanish: Fernandez
Huerta; French: Kandel & Moles; Swedish, Danish: LIX.
Language: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Readability Test (version 1.0)
Juicy Studio, 20 January 2003
Description: The Readability Test uses the Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading
Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid reading level algorithms to help you determine
how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough
guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words.
However, they can give a useful indication as to whether you've pitched
your content at the right level for your intended audience.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Formats: XHTML
Online service: Online checker
License: Free Software
Reading Effectiveness Tool
Clear Language and Design (CLAD)
Description: The tool helps to to find out if a draft manuscript is at the
right Grade Reading Level for the intended audience, by asking a series of
questions. It is based on the Simple Measure Of Gobbledegook (SMOG)
readability formula.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
Reading Level Calculator
Linda Wasmer Andrews
Description: The Reading Level Calculator is a web tool based on the SMOG
readability formula. This form relies on client-side scripting to calculate the
reading level.
 Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
Relaxed HTML Validator
Petr Nlevka, 8 December 2005
Description: "Relaxed" is an easy to use HTML validator implementation
which doesn't use the official W3C DTD's. It rather validates HTML
documents using it's own schema definitions written in Relax NG with
embedded Schematron patterns. This is an extremely expressive
combination of languages which enables validation of additional restrictions
which can not be expressed using DTD. This includes most restrictions
specified in the W3C HTML 4.01 and the W3C XHTML 1.0 recommendation
and some restrictions from WAI WCAG 1.0 Guidelines. "Relaxed" features
also basic support for compound documents validation e.g.
XHTML1.0+SVG1.1, XHTML1.0+MathML2.0 and
XHTML1.0+MathML2.0+SVG1.1.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Formats: HTML, XHTML, SVG
Online service: Online checker
Reports: XML
License: Open Source
Silvinha - Accessibility Validator and Repair Tool (version 2.0)
Acessibilidade Brasil, 17 August 2006
Description: The Silvinha software is a powerful multiplatform tool that
checks accessibility of your HTML/XHTML pages using the W3C-WAI (WCAG)
and e-GOV (Brazilian government accessibility rules for web) conformance.
It can be installed inside any corporation network and able to perform full
web server scan (any pages, groups of pages, full domains and tree level
access) indicating errors that must be corrected and warnings which should
be avoided. It also offers the fix and repair tool option (automatic and
manual when the interference of the user is needed, ex. image alternative
text) for all evaluated pages. Silvinha provides web updates (the user must
have an internet connection) and full support during the period of one year,
which can be extended for all our customers. We are upgrading the Silvinha
tool to validate not only WCAG1 but as soon as possible, the next release of
WCAG2(2006).
Language: Brazilian Portuguese, English, French
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page
 feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Runtime: Java
License: Commercial
Site Valet (version 2.0.4)
WebThing Ltd
Description: Spiders sites checking validity, accessibility, metadata and link
integrity, saving results to an SQL database. Incorporates monitoring,
change detection, and audit trail. Supports a wide range of reports: on the
spot analysis, database queries, and historical, in detailed (developer) and
executive summary (management) formats.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Server installation
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
API interface: C / C++ / C#
License: Commercial, Enterprise
SiteCheck
Siteimprove
Description: SiteCheck checks your entire site for errors in such areas as
spelling, linking and accessibility. SiteCheck provides clear indications of
why and where issues occur, and clear recommendations on how to fix
them.
Language: Danish, English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Page groups
Formats: HTML, XHTML, Images
Online service: Hosted service
Reports: HTML, PDF
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
SiteMorse
SiteMorse
Description: SiteMorse offers a range of website testing services that
require no setup, downloads or technical support to operate. SiteMorse
 measures performance, tests functions and checks compliance with web
standards and accessibility. The service may be used as and when required,
scheduled weekly/monthly, or used as a monitoring system running every
few minutes 24/7.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Hosted service
Reports: HTML
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial, Enterprise
SortSite (version 2.0)
Electrum, 14 January 2008
Description: SortSite checks entire sites for accessibility, usability,
standards compliance, and quality issues. It's simple to use: just type in a
URL and click Check. In addition to WCAG 1.0 and Section 508 accessibility,
the tool also checks for usability; broken links and anchors; HTML and CSS
validation; browser compatibility; and search engine guideline violations.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, Images
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML, XML
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial
Style and Diction (version 1.09)
Michael Haardt, 30 November 2005
Description: Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style
analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length
and other readability measures.
Language: English, German
Operating system: Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
License: Free Software, Open Source
SWAP (version 1.1)
UB Access, 30 October 2004
Description: The SWAP Wizard - a next-generation turnkey technology
enabling Website owners to quickly, efficiently and affordably ensure that
their Websites are seamlessly accessible to the disabled community, to
 users of PDAs and other mobile devices. SWAP employs advanced
technology with features and functionality available in no other
accessibility package. Yet SWAP requires no prior knowledge of disabled-
access issues. SWAP is also available in an Enterprise version.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback, Page
transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, SVG
Operating system: Windows, Linux
Browser: Internet Explorer
License: Commercial
Table Inspector Firefox Extension (version 0.1)
Juicy Studio, 18 January 2005
Description: Table Inspector is a Mozilla - Firefox extension to reveal the
hidden accessibility features of data tables, such as summary, headers,
axis, scope, and abbr.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: In-page feedback, Page transformation
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
License: Free Software
Tablin
W3C, 7 September 2000
Description: Tablin is a filter program that can linearize HTML tables and
render them accordingly to preferences set by the presentation layer (e.g.
the screen reader end-user).
Language: English
Assistance: In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML
TAW Online (version 3.08)
Fundación CTIC, 17 November 2005
Description: TAW (Web Accessibility Test) is an online tool for the
 accessibility analysis of Web sites based on the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0), which provides a useful in-page
feedback. Its goal is to analyse the level of accessibility in the design and
development of Web pages to allow access for all, regardless of their
specific characteristics. 
Language: English, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
TAW Standalone (version 3.08)
Fundación CTIC, 17 November 2005
Description: This downloadable version of TAW is a multiplatform desktop
software that complements and extends the functionality of TAW Online
analyser performing several automatic tests and guiding users through those
checks that require human judgement and must be evaluated manually. It
follows the links of HTML documents so that it allows to examine a single
page or the whole Web site. It is also possible to select the checkpoints to
be verified and to create customized rules. Additionally, the tool can
generate different types of test result reports.
Language: English, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML, EARL
License: Free Software
TAW with a click (version 0.9.3)
Fundación CTIC, 30 November 2005
Description: 'TAW with a click' is a Firefox extension that once installed will
display an icon on your browser's status bar allowing you, by clicking the
icon, to easily and quickly verify the accessibility of the Web sites visited,
based in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0), by
means of the TAW Online service (www.tawdis.net). 
Language: English, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
 Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Tidy
Dave Raggett, 26 October 2005
Description: A quorum of developers have pitched in on a SourceForge
project to maintain and further develop Dave Raggett's excellent HTML Tidy
program. We have two primary goals. First, to provide a home where all the
patches and fixes that folks contribute can be collected and incorporated
into the program. Second, a library form of Tidy has been created to make
it easier to incorporate Tidy into other software.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
API interface: C / C++ / C#
License: Free Software, Open Source
TidyConf (version 1.3.9.3)
Wrong HTML, 30 March 2004
Description: This tool is Japanese GUI front-end for HTML Tidy. In addition,
this tool has some functions for confirmation of the HTML document.
Language: Japanese
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows
License: Free Software
Torquemada (version 2.0)
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, 30 May 2002
Description: Torquemada offers to website developers a complete
methodology for accessibility analysis which uses a tool for page checking
that makes it possible to quickly identify which parts of a page are in error
and the HTML code corresponding to these parts.
Language: English, Italian
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
 Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
Total Validator (version 4.4)
Total Validator, 10 May 2005
Description: Total Validator in a 5-in-1 validation tool, comprising of a
HTML validator, an accessibility validator (WCAG and US508), a spell
checker, a broken link checker, and the ability to take screenshots with
different browsers on different platforms.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Commercial
Truwex 2.0 (version 2.0)
Erigami, 30 August 2007
Description: Truwex is a server application with a web interface. It is
dedicated to web development teams and to corporate compliance
managers. Truwex can be deployed on an individual computer, on a server,
or rented as a hosted solution. Truwex is the only web quality management
tool which uses a real instance of Internet Explorer to scan every page of a
website automatically. Truwex shows detected issues on a web page
screenshot and in the HTML code. Truwex validates web accessibility,
privacy, quality.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML, Images
Online service: Hosted service, Server installation
Operating system: Windows
Reports: HTML
API interface: C / C++ / C#, SQL
License: Trial or Demo, Commercial, Enterprise
Uaw (version 1)
 Fundación Sidar / Mireia Ribera Turró, 1 July 2005
Description: A java tool incorporating the functionality of Tidy, and
converting framesets to CSS-based layout. Uaw was developed by Mireia
Ribera Turró. The system is written in Java and is available for adaptation
under the GPL open-source license.
Language: Spanish
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Open Source
Vischeck
Vischeck, Menlo Park, CA, 27 June 2001
Description: Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to
someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online - either run
Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can
also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.
Language: English, Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, BITV
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: CSS, HTML
Online service: Online checker
Authoring tool: Photoshop
License: Free Software, Open Source
Visolve (version 4.1)
Ryobi System Solutions, 26 August 2005
Description: Visolve is software that transforms the computer display colors
into the discriminable colors for various people with color blindness. One of
its aims is to help people with color blindness guess a normal color. In
addition to the color transformation, it provides the following two
functions: the filtering darkens all colors other than the specified color, and
the hatching draws different hatch patterns depending on color.
Language: English, Japanese
Assistance: Page transformation
Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Browser: Internet Explorer
License: Free Software, Commercial
Visual Impairment Simulator for Microsoft Windows (version 1.0)
 University of Illinois, 12 May 2005
Description: Provide almost real time full screen simulation of various
visual impairments on Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP. Tool is useful for
testing for the use of colors and learning about how people with visual
impairments perceive information.
Language: English
Assistance: Page transformation
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML, PDF, SVG
Operating system: Windows
License: Free Software
W3C CSS Validation Service (version 2.0)
W3C
Description: W3C CSS Validation Service is a free service that checks
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for
conformance to W3C recommendations.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
W3C Markup Validation Service (version 0.7.2)
W3C, 20 February 2006
Description: a free service that checks Web documents in formats like
HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other
standards.
Language: English
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML, EARL
WAEX online
Vicente Luque-Centeno, 19 April 2006
Description: WAEX is a Web Accessibility Evaluator in a single XSLT file.
Such XSLT file can be applied (with any XSLT platform) to generate
accessibility reports. These reports also include constraint evaluation of the
XHTML specification not expressed/expressible in the DTD/Schema of
XHTML.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
 Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
License: Free Software, Open Source
WAEX standalone
Vicente Luque-Centeno, 19 April 2006
Description: WAEX is a Web Accessibility Evaluator in a single XSLT file.
Such XSLT file can be applied (with any XSLT platform) to generate
accessibility reports. These reports also include constraint evaluation of the
XHTML specification not expressed/expressible in the DTD/Schema of
XHTML.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Hosted service, Server installation
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
License: Free Software, Open Source
WAhelper (version 0.2)
Brailcom, o.p.s., 11 January 2006
Description: WAhelper is a set of free software extensible tools for
semiautomated checking of the accessibility features of web pages. It
consists of an independent software library and an web based user interface
for testing and making reports on web accessibility and managing web
accessibility testing projects.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Hosted service, Server installation
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Open Source
WAVE (version 3)
WebAIM
Description: WAVE exposes errors and highlights content where
accessibility considerations require human judgement(e.g. WAVE exposes
 alt text so a human evaluator can determine whether it is appropriate for
the image). Icons are used as feedback elements within the web page being
evaluated.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: In-page feedback
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Server installation
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Netscape
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
License: Free Software, Open Source
WDG HTML Validator
Liam Quinn, 1 January 2005
Description: The WDG HTML Validator validates against W3C HTML DTD's.
Own DTDs to support non-standard HTML features can be added such as the
EMBED element or the LEFTMARGIN attribute on BODY.
Language: English, French
Assistance: Generating Reports
Formats: HTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix
License: Open Source
Web Accessibility Inspector (version 5.1)
Fujitsu Limited, 18 January 2008
Description: Web Accessibility Inspector can determine whether your
website can be easily viewed by the elderly and those with visual
impairments. The criteria of Web Accessibility Inspector are based on W3C
WCAG 1.0 and Fujitsu Web Accessibility Guidelines. It can evaluate not just
HTML but also CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and enables to diagnose at a
high level of precision, including text size, line spacing, and the color of
texts and backgrounds. This software was awarded the universal design
award 08. The name of a Japanese version is WebInspector.
Language: Chinese (Simplified), English, Korean
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML, CSV
License: Free Software
Web Accessibility Self-Evaluation Tool (version 1)
TechDis, 23 May 2005
Description: This simple web accessibility self-evaluation tool has been
designed to provide website developers with a simple and pragmatic step-
by-step approach to conducting an internal or self-evaluation. This tool is
suitable for use with institutional websites, personal academic homepages
and other information sites. However, this tool is not suitable on its own as
a tool for the evaluation of e-learning or e-resource material. This tool has
been designed to provide developers with a simple holistic overview of the
accessibility of a website. The tool takes advantage of free online
automatic evaluation tools, heuristic evaluation methods (where the
reviewer is required to evaluate a site against a guideline or principle), and
takes a methodical approach to identifying potential issues.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0
Assistance: Step-by-step evaluations
License: Free Software
Web Accessibility Toolbar (version 1.2)
Vision Australia & WAT-C, 27 October 2005
Description: The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid
manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility. It
consists of a range of functions that: identify components of a web page,
facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications, simulate user
experiences and provide links to references and additional resources.
Language: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch,
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Internet Explorer
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
Web Accessibility Toolbar [For Opera] (version 1.1)
Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, 15 December 2006
Description: The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid
manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility. It
consists of a range of functions that: 1.identify components of a web page;
2.facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications; 3.provide links to
references and additional resources.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
 Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Opera
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Open Source
Web Accessibility Toolbox (version 1.0.3)
Infoaxia, 2 March 2005
Description: Web Accessibility Toolbox is a free toolbar for Firefox which
allows users to do manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects
of accessibility. You can select multiple checkpoints as you want and check
a web page with the selected checkpoints at the same time.
Language: Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, JIS
Assistance: In-page feedback, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
License: Free Software
Web Compliance Manager (version 2.1)
RedDot Solutions AG, 1 October 2004
Description: Web Compliance Manager is a product licensing imergo®
technologies available as a stand-alone product, or integrated within
RedDot's ECMS, which offers as well: Reliable persistence backend: rules,
evaluated documents and project configuration files are stored in a RDBMS
database; Project management: project progress can be monitored in
combination with the implemented reporting capabilities; Large scale
validation of XML and (X)HTML documents for big Internet portals. The tool
validates also CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); Powerful, flexible and
configurable crawler; Identification of broken links; Easy implementation
and configuration of evaluation rules, flexible composition of evaluation
rule-sets.
Language: English, German, Spanish
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Runtime: Java, SOA
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL
API interface: Java, Web Service
License: Commercial, Enterprise
Web Developer Extension (version 1.0.2)
Chris Pederick, 31 January 2006
Description: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to
the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox,
Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these
browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, In-page feedback, Page transformation
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Mozilla/Firefox
Reports: HTML
License: Open Source
webagogo (version 1.0 beta)
Webagogo, 8 October 2006
Description: Webagogo is a free online tool to test the quality of your
website. It includes validators (for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS and P3P) and
tests for accessibility, usability, speed, SEO, ... and a lot more! The stand-
alone tools can be used to analyze single webpages.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508, Stanca Act, BITV
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software, Commercial
WebInspector (version 5.1)
Fujitsu Limited, 28 September 2007
Description: WebInspector can determine whether your website can be
easily viewed by the elderly and those with visual impairments. The criteria
of WebInspector are based on JIS and Fujitsu Web Accessibility Guidelines
For Japanese sites Version2.01. It can evaluate not just HTML but also CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets), and enables to diagnose at a high level of
precision, including text size, line spacing, and the color of texts and
backgrounds. This software was awarded the universal design award 08. The
name of a global version is Web Accessibility Inspector.
Language: Japanese
Guidelines: JIS
Assistance: Generating Reports
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
 Operating system: Windows, MacOS
Runtime: Java
Reports: HTML, CSV
License: Free Software
WebKing (version 5.1)
Parasoft, 7 October 2005
Description: WebKing is a comprehensive Web verification tool that
automates the most critical Web verification practices: static analysis,
functional testing, security testing, and load testing. WebKing's wizards and
automated technologies help you verify application functionality and
reliability without writing a single script, plus its flexibility allows you to
automatically verify even the most specialized requirements. You can start
testing instantly, then easily extend and customize tests if needed.
Language: English, Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Step-by-step evaluations, Page
transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages
Repair options: Code modification
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Operating system: Windows, Linux, Solaris
IDE: Eclipse, WebSphere Studio
Reports: HTML, XML, CSV
License: Commercial
WebXACT (version 4.0)
Watchfire, 14 March 2005
Description: WebXACT is a free online service that enables users to test
single pages of web content for accessibility, quality and privacy issues. Can
be integrated into the browser via favelet or similar technology.
Language: English
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Reports: HTML
License: Free Software
WebXM (version 4.0)
Watchfire, 14 March 2005
Description: WebXM™ is the industry's only automated Online Risk
Management solution that audits accessibility, quality, privacy, security,
brand and compliance issues across corporate web properties. WebXM
drives significant cost out of the online operation by automating manual
processes and identifying and prioritizing issues for immediate remediation.
The Accessibility module of WebXM scans your online web properties for
over 170 accessibility checks and generates user-friendly dashboards and
reports for website stakeholders. Non-compliance with the W3C's Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), or government standards (such as
the U.S. Government's Section 508) discriminates against individuals with
disabilities and can negatively impact your corporate brand.
Language: English, Japanese
Guidelines: WCAG 1.0, Section 508
Assistance: Generating Reports, Page transformation
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups, Restricted pages
Formats: HTML, XHTML
Online service: Server installation
Operating system: Windows
Browser: Internet Explorer
Reports: HTML, XML, CSV
License: Commercial, Enterprise