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Designing Accessible Web Sites
The following tools were compiled to help web developers at the University of Texas at San Antonio create web sites that are government compliant, user friendly, and efficient.
Section 508 Compliance
- Bobby - Online compliance checker.
- APrompt - A free compliance checker.
- Section 508: The Road to Accessiblity - Official Government Website.
- Lynx Viewer - Simulator displays the page in text-only format. Reading the text out loud - from top to bottom, left to right - in a measured cadence with punctuation and line break pauses simulates the output of a voice browser. The Lynx Viewer generates an HTML page that indicates how much of the content of your page would be available to Lynx, which is a text-only browser. In addition to showing how useful a site would be for a visually-impaired person, it is also a good indicator for anyone with older technology.
- Adobe PDF Documents - The latest release of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 supports accessibility.
- Simply Web 2000 - This is a free screen reader. Please contact us if you have used this software.
Style Sheets (CSS)
- CSS Validator Validate your Style Sheets with the W3C's online tool.
- Why not to use font tags. - Popular and concise article.
HTML
- W3C's HTML Validator - Validate your HTML for errors and compliance.
Usability Links
- Vischeck - Experience your site through various color blindness disorders.
Other Resources
- The Font Bit Counter - How much space can I save by NOT using <font></font> tags? (created by WAMS and is cfm file…needs to be verified and/or deconstructed.)
- About.com's Web Usability – Cool articles about Web site design
- Screen Reader Simulation
- W3C Core Stylesheets
Web Video Captioning
- Creating Video Products that are Accessible to People with Sensory Impairments.
- CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM).
- WGBH Descriptive Video Service.
- Trace Center R&D's Multimedia and Virtual Reality Access.
- World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design - accessible web pages.
- Videotape: World Wide Access.
- Creating Video and Multimedia Products that are Accessible to People with Sensory Impairments.