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AccessEnable™
AccessEnable™ is an online website evaluation and correction product line that is able to make site-wide automatic fixes as well as interactive fixes to satisfy Federal and other web accessibility standards. Developed by RetroAccess. (WAC 14 Jan 2002)
Accessibility Wizard
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.
AccVerify™
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.
AnyBrowser.com
Tools relevant for accessibility include viewing in various screen sizes, view with images are replaced by ALT text. Also HTML and link validation, search engine tools, and other browser compatibility tests.
ART Guide
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.
Bobby
Bobby is a web accessibility desktop testing tool designed for small websites to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, including Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act and the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), on a page-by-page basis.
Common Look
NetCentric Technologies's CommonLook™ family of software products is designed to greatly simplify the process of verifying the compliance of websites and various types of documents with accessibility and a wide variety of other standards (including Common Look and Feel, Section 508 and W3C standards). 'Out of the box' and without customization they provide an immediate solution.
Cynthia Says
This tool is designed to identify errors related to Section 508 standards and the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The main purpose of this portal is to educate Web site developers about accessible Web design. It validates one page at a time. Either download and run it locally or use the free Web interface. The downloadable version is a special edition of the ACCVerify tool by HiSoftware. (2003)
Deque Ramp Grade
Professional solution for systems analysts, QA and Accessibility coordinators. Ramp Grade tests complete web sites for compliance with all W3C WAI WCAG and Section 508 requirements. Produces very clear change specifications to guide developers through correction. Integrated with Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia HomeSite and Mercury TestDirector. Accessible to persons with disabilities, supports Windows 2000/XP, Macintosh OS X, Linux and Unix.
Deque Ramp Personal Edition
Low cost way to learn about accessibility, tests web pages for W3C WAI WCAG and S.508 compliance. Integrated with Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia HomeSite. Accessible to persons with disabilities, supports Windows 2000/XP, Macintosh OS X, Linux and Unix.
Dr Watson
Dr. Watson is hosted as a free service by Addy & Associates (2000). Watson checks per HTML 3.2, as well as Netscape and Microsoft extensions up through version 4.x. Watson can also check many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, link popularity, word count, and spelling. No specific accessibility checking. It only runs on the Addy & Associates server.
Dreamweaver 508 Accessibility Suite
See Lift for Dreamweaver
Hermish
Hermish is a free web accessibility tool designed to help you bring your web site up to required standards outlined by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Hera
Hera is a tool designed to facilitate collaborative ongoing assessment. The first generation tool is web-based, available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Danish, with a translation interface to allow further localisation. It uses CSS to provide diagnostic information, and can produce reports in either EARL, or in HTML in any of the avialable languages.
Hera is developed by Fundacion Sidar.
i-Checker
An entry level Web accessibility automated checking tool in Japanese from IBM
InSight
SSB Technologies. Interactive evaluation tool designed to help developers create accessible web pages. Also see InFocus (a repair tool). Runs on both the desktop and a server. Runs on Windows 95/98/00/NT, Linux, Unix, and Mac OS. The server software available for installation on local intranets. Support and upgrades are available to users of the software This software claims to be designed so that it is accessible to all users.
Lift
Lift Machine and Lift Online are both Developed by UsableNet, Inc.
Lift for Dreamweaver, Lift for FrontPage, Lift NNg
Lift for Dreamweaver / FrontPage are extensions for those Authoring tools. Lift allows customisation of accessibility tests (WCAG Priority 1, US government section 508), and provides continuously updated test results during editing as well as a wizard-based repair tool that can be run in a context-sensitive mode while editing. It generates reports in HTML format or as an XML file that can be used for further processing. It incorporates heuristics for distinguishing different types of tables and images to provide appropriate suggestions for repair. The current version 1.3 is now available for Dreamweaver 4.01 or Dreamweaver MX. Lift NNg adds usability testing and repair functionalities to Lift for Dreamweaver.
Ocawa
Ocawa runs accessibility tests based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines with audits cross-referenced to other rule-sets (e.g. section 508, Accessiweb, FT Ocawa, etc) by virtue of 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. Ocawa was developped by Urbilog and France Telecom R & D.
Page Valet
Page Valet combines formal validation with accessibility testing based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Page Valet generates XML, with a choice of report formats including HTML versions for Web browsers. The "document view" shows page source, normalised by a validating parser, with Validation Errors and Accessibility Warnings shown inline wherver they are detected. This is part of the Site Valet suite of tools (see below) (23 January 2002)
Site Valet
Site Valet is a comprehensive Quality Assurance product for Web and Intranet sites. An online toolkit is complemented by a site maintenance programme, both of which are available to the public at the website. Site Valet can be extensively customised for corporate users. Of particular interest to accessibility are the Page Valet tool for markup analysis (see above), and a user feedback programme for raising and dealing responsively with problem reports. Online toolkit includes an HTML Validator, Link Checker, toolkit for testing and debugging forms and scripts, SGML tools for content analysis and transformation, an online version of Tidy, and a website monitoring service to notify users of potential problems.
TAW.
Developed by Fondo Formación CTIC in collaboration with SIDAR, TAW tests accessibility of a page, marking automatically detected errors with the priority level of the WCAG checkpoint. It also marks manual tests that are required in the page. Each marker is linked to a report (after the marked version of the original) which explains the checkpoint (in Spanish) and the locations that need to be checked.

El TAW, desarollado por Fondo Formación CTIC en colaboración con el SIDAR, hace un evaluación de una pagina. El informe presenta una versión de la página original con iconos que significan la prioridad (de las pautas WCAG) de cada problema, y enlazan a una explicación del problema. También marca las cosas que necesitan un verificación manual.

The Web Page Accessibility Self-Evaluation Test
Created by the Public Service Commission of Canada. It is a 27 question, multiple choice survey available in English or French that produces 5 accessibility ratings
  1. highly inaccessible,
  2. much improvement required,
  3. partially accessible,
  4. fairly accessible,
  5. accessible.

An e-mail address is provided to give feedback. There are two versions of the test, one written in HTML 2.0 that requires the user to tally their rating. The other uses JavaScript to tally the rating.

Torquemada
Torquemada is an Italian-language tool designed to assess the accessibility of Websites. The initial version is an online service, but the tool is under development and a downloadable version is promised soon.

Torquemada é un strumento per testare l'accessibilità dei siti web. Funziona in italiano, adesso come servizio on-line, ma é in fase di sviluppo, e il suo sito promette una verzione scaricabile, disponible a breve.

Web Accessiblity Toolbar

The Web Accessibility Toolbar from Accessible Information Solutions at NILS in Australia has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages in Internet Explorer for a variety of accessibility aspects. It consists of a range of functions that:

  • identify structural and semantic components of a web page
  • facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications
  • simulate user experiences
  • provide links to references and additional resources.

It is available in several languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean) and includes a tutorial. There are also instructions for using its functions to assist WCAG 1.0 conformance evaluation; the Web Accessibility Toolbar can assist with evaluating 50 of the 65 WCAG 1.0 checkpoints.
(Updated Feb 2005)

WebQA
WebQA, the next generation of Linkbot, is a website quality testing tool for small or departmental websites up to 10,000 links that assists with quality and accessibility testing. Reports generated help developers and quality assurance staff pinpoint and fix quality, interaction, and accessibility defects on a page-by-page basis.
WebXACT
WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
WebXM
WebXM, an enterprise Online Business Management platform, automates the manual process of identifying online brand and risk issues. It generates high-level dashboards and detailed reports to help identify online problems, prioritize the issues, assign them to owners, and track them through to resolution. This knowledge helps you understand how your business goals align with online practices.The Accessibility module of WebXM scans all your web properties, regardless of size and complexity, for over 90 comprehensive accessibility checks and generates different levels of reports for website stakeholders. Non-compliance with the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) or government standards (such as the US government's Section 508 and the UK's Disability Discrimination Act), discriminates against individuals with disabilities who should be able to access your online business, and can negatively impact your corporate brand.
AccMonitor™ and AccessibilityWATCH™
AccMonitor™ by HiSoftware is designed for Web site Accessibility Management. 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. can test Web Sites around the clock and report Accessibility issues based on development, content management requirements and scheduling. AccessibilityWATCH™ esults of manual tests can be recorded using the Interview Wizard via the Web-based interface to the service. AccMonitor includes an API to allow developers to incorporate it in other projects, or extend it.
Deque Worldspace
Deque Worldspace Accessibility Management Practice (AMP): An add-on solution to Deque Worldspace, Worldspace AMP provides fully automated accessibility management across the most complex of organizations. Tasks that require user intervention are automatically assigned to the most qualified person and results automatically appear in the customizable dashboards. Deque Worldspace is the first cross-platform, Java 2 Enterprise Edition driven collaborative solution that manages web quality.