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Accessibility Validators

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Free to Low Cost

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Deque FireEyes
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.
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, Linux, Solaris
Authoring tool: Dreamweaver
Reports: HTML

Functional Accessibility Evaluator
Description: The Functional Accessibility 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.
Automatic checking: Single pages, Page groups
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, BSDUnix
Reports: HTML, XML 

WAVE 
Description: WAVE exposes errors and highlights content where accessibility considerations require human judgment (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.
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Online service: Online checker, Server installation
Browser: Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Netscape
Reports: HTML, XML, EARL 

Web Accessibility Toolbar [For Opera]
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. 
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Opera
Reports: HTML 

Web Accessibility Toolbar [For IE, Firefox/Mozilla] 
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. 
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Internet Explorer
Reports: HTML 

Web Accessibility Toolbar WAT [For IE] 
Description: The Toolbar functionality development is an ongoing process, as the Toolbar has an update function the tools/references available can be updated without the user having to re-install the software. Also, some toolbar functionality is reliant upon Javascript and CSS files hosted on the Vision Australia server, these files may be modified, resulting in a change in the way the associated Toolbar function works.
Automatic checking: Single pages
Formats: CSS, HTML, XHTML
Browser: Internet Explorer
Reports: HTML

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Color Blind Testing

Colorblind Web Page Filter

VisCheck

WCAG Contrast checker

Color Oracle

 

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Demo or At Cost Validators

Compliance Sheriff
Description:HiSoftware provides a variety of enterprise and developers solutions to help you build a Web accessibility program allowing you to test, repair, monitor and enforce Accessibility standards for your organizations Web content and ensure a positive user experience for prospects, customers, employees, and business partners. Empower content providers to create, manage, and publish their own policy compliant content, and enable IT departments to quickly deploy scalable dynamic sites that are usable and accessible the first time.

Deque Worldspace 
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.
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
Reports: HTML, XML

AMP 
Description:AMP delivers a comprehensive and rich set of features and functionality in a scalable, turnkey solution for meeting your Section 508 and Americans with Disabilities (ADA) compliance needs.
Automatic checking: Page groups
Formats: HTML, XHTML, Images
Online service: Hosted service
Reports: HTML, PDF

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