Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), from the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility: Overview
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview & an RSS Feed
- Priority Conformance Levels:
- Priority Level 1&
Conformance
"A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents."
- Priority Level 2 &
Conformance
"A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents."
- Priority Level 3
&
Conformance
"A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents."
- List of checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Priority Level 1&
USA Legislation
- Section 508
- Section 508 and Web-based intranet and internet information and applications
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Dreamweaver's Accessibility Validator via the following sequence of steps:
- Menu Bar: Window/Results for Results Panel, following the steps shown below:
- Pick "Accessibility" from the Reports Dialog Box (shown below) to obtain the accessibility report.
- Then
- Menu Bar: Window/Results for Results Panel, following the steps shown below:
- Text-Only Browsers
- List of text-only browsers
- Lynx -- Download for local installation
- Single page, web-based lynx viewer
- Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox. Suggestion: Use the Disable Styles/All Styles as shown below:
- JAWS -- Screen Reader Program
- GAWD (Guild of Accessible Web Designers)
- Cynthia Says Portal's Online Validator
- A list of Text and Screen Reader from University of Buffalo's Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO)
- A list of Screen Reading Software from CNIB