Resources
These are general resources for helpful accessibility tools and online guides. To view specific support resources available at Austin Community College (ACC), please visit ACC Support Links.
“WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) has provided comprehensive web accessibility solutions since 1999. These years of experience have made WebAIM one of the leading providers of web accessibility expertise internationally. WebAIM is a non-profit organization based at the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University.” – WebAIM About Page
Accessibility Cheatsheets from NCDAE
Printable, one-page guides for making your materials more accessible and other guides from The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
Accessible Document Guides from WebAIM
WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) articles for creating accessible documents. Explore the WebAIM site for other valuable accessibility-related content.
Color Contrast Tools
Colorzilla is an excellent tool for extracting the color value from any page element. Additionally, WAVE can analyze contrast ratios for all page text elements at once.
Closed Captions
Other Accessibility Sites to Explore:
- Knowbility.org – Knowbility, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas and an award-winning leader in accessible information technology.
- UDL On Campus – Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Higher Education Introduction Video
- Free/Low-Cost Assistive Technology
Reading Tools
The Kurzweil reader now works with Blackboard Lockdown/Respondus Monitor. This is exciting news and will allow more students to test independently without having SAS to be involved in their testing.
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.