eAccessibility and Assistive Technologies

Includes many tools to help design accessible content, including readability tester, colour analyzer, etc.

To check contrast ratios for colours. Does not require you to know the hexadecimal colour code.

A complete list of tools for evaluating accessibility.

Web accessibility evaluation tool.

Renders a text version of a web page similar to how a screen reader would read it. The ambition is to help developers understand how an assistive device would present a website and thereby increase chances of finding accessibility issues early.

Helps authors determine whether animations or video in their content are likely to cause seizures.

A project of the Open Accessibility Alliance and OpenAjax Accessibility Task Force.

A screen reader is an essential piece of software for a blind or visually impaired person. Many people could not afford the expensive price tag associated with some of the more sophisticated screen readers. Luckily for them, there are several screen reading software that are completely free.

Supports web developers in testing their web resources for functional accessibility features based on the iCITA HTML Best Practices (http://html.cita.uiuc.edu).

Accessibility toolbar enabling easy manipulation of web page display and text-to-speech output.

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other color-related tools.

Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output. Helps developers find accessibility issues.

Remove colors and background images from the page by one click.

Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.

Checks for compliance with the contrast levels, brightness and shine in the color combination of foreground and background of textual content based on the requirements of WCAG 1 and WCAG 2.

Zooms to make your desired section of a page fit into the viewport and adds a zoom control panel to the statusbar.

Creates a text-only version of almost any web page. Great for accessibility, SEO and printing.