[Sigia-l] Accessibility Testing Tool

[Johnson, Bryce]

|-----Original Message-----
|From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
|[mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Jeanpierre Caramanica
|Subject: [Sigia-l] Accessibility Testing Tool
|My question is which tool have people 
|found to be the most useful for their projects (i.e. 
|developers, etc.)? 


Depends on what you are looking for and how much you want to spend:

I find that AccVerify/AccRepair is my favourite overall because it is
standalone with a lot of good features as it has a nice customizable
reporting format.$$$
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/newvIndex.html   > Check out
CynthiaSays for a sample of a report http://www.cynthiasays.com/ 


If you developers use Dreamweaver extensively then LIFT is a good choice
but if you have to validate code from a VisualStudio.NET or other
intensive Server Side Solution then it may not be appropriate.$$$
http://www.usablenet.com/lift_dw/lift_dw.html

I also find the report that CSE HTML Validator Generates good but not as
detailed as AccVerify.$$$
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/



One free tool I use all the time is the The Web Accessibility Toolbar,
It's awesome, but it helps if the application you are testing is on a
publicly accessible server.
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/index.html

Another free tool and representing the UofTdot is Aprompt. Seems like a
good tool but haven't examined it thoroughly because I have AccVerify
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/

One tool that looks really neat but I haven't had a chance to explore is
IBM aDesigner (alpha > free)
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner


Bryce Johnson   416.532.5554x227
Navantis.UserInterfaceDevelopment.Manager