Resources
Explore these general resources for helpful accessibility tools and guides. For ACC-specific support resources, visit ACC Support Links.
Accessibility Cheat Sheets
Download printable, one-page guides from the National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) to make your materials more accessible:
Accessible Document Guides
WebAIM offers articles on creating accessible documents. Explore these guides:
Color Contrast Tools
- ColorZilla: Extract color values from any page element.
- WAVE: Analyze contrast ratios for all text elements on a page.
Closed Caption Resources
Other Accessibility Sites
- Knowbility.org – A nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, and an award‑winning leader in accessible information technology.
- UDL On Campus – Learn about Universal Design for Learning in higher education (watch the introduction video).
- Free/Low‑Cost Assistive Technology
Reading Tools
The Kurzweil reader now works with Blackboard LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. This allows more students to test independently without SAS involvement.
Accessibility Checker Tools
Use W3C HTML Validatoror HTML Validator add-on for Firefox to verify that web pages have correct syntax.
You can use the browser’s accessibility functions (e.g. text size, zoom, no page style) to determine whether or not the site responds as expected to those functions.
Try to use your website with the keyboard (hide your mouse) to see how accessible is the site. You can also use a screen reader simulation and screen readers shortcuts.
These are single-page evaluation tools that will give you warnings and errors for accessibility.
Test and evaluate Internet applications such as Flash, AJAX, JavaScript (Windows platform).
You can extend the capability of the browsers to help you easily find accessibility issues.
Contrast and color can be issues for accessibility. Use these tools to easily analyze the colors of a website.
These are some tools that people with disabilities use to access the Web.
Users can submit this form to review pages for accessibility and send the information to authors to correct the accessibility problems in webpages.