Below are some tools you will find useful in creating accessible content or informative about the experiences of those with disabilities accessing websites.
Intro
A great summary of topics in accessibility such as why building websites for accessibility is not compromise. From David Berman. .
Definitions
“The design of products, devices, services, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.”
-Wikipedia
“Accessibility is best defined as the provision of flexibility to accommodate each [individual鈥檚] needs and preferences when used with reference to persons with disabilities, any place, space, item or service, whether physical or virtual, that is easily approached, reached, entered, exited, interacted with, understood or otherwise used by persons of varying disabilities, is determined to be accessible.鈥�
-United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division for Social Policy and Development,聽 ”
Regulations
Images
- 鈥� AIM (Accessibility In Mind)
- 鈥� Harvard University
- (how to use alt text tags and captions)
- – from the World Web Consortium
- Definitions of types of images 鈥� W3C:
Tools
Overview
There is a great breakdown of different tools (and different types of tools) featured on the AIM website. You can here.
Different types of assistive technologies such as those developed for people with and disabilities.
Code Sniffer
Code Sniffer is a bookmarklet [a link you keep on your bookmark bar but which runs an application rather than takes you to a website] which assesses how well-formed and formatted a web page is. It is a very useful tool although some of its results are pretty technical. You can here.
Colour Contrast Checkers
These are tools which assess whether there is a great enough contrast between a text colour and the background on which it is overlaid. Black on white is deemed best but sometimes we need to use another text colour (eg, for links, aor to attain a branding goal.) r, or you can google “colour contrast checkers” to view many other examples.
WAVE Accessibility Evaluation Tool
WAVE is a highly regarded tool for scanning sites for accessibility errors and warnings. You can for free.
Screen Readers and other assistive technologies
We recommend visiting media which demonstrate how people with visual disabilities access web pages. It is fascinating!
. (Sina is an accomplished “universal design” and accessibility evangelist.)
he writes. Tuukka is a (in his words) blind software developer. Then .