ADA & WCAG Web Accessibility Resources
WEB ACCESSIBILITY BLOGS & NEWS
WebAxe - blog and podcast on web accessibility
WebAIM Blog - WebAIM, makers of WAVE tester
Seyfeth & Shaw - ADA Title III legal blog
Hunt Huey - AccessDefense legal blog
Understanding the ADA - William Goren, legal consultant blog
ADA WCAG 2.0 BACKGROUND & GUIDELINES
ADA.gov
- Title III “Highlights” (no specifics related to websites)
W3C WCAG 2.0
WebAIM : very complete WCAG checklist
WEB ACCESSIBILITY AUDITING & TESTING TOOLS FOR DESIGNERS & DEVELOPERS
Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) by Level Access (formerly SSB Bart)
- Enterprise level
- Very thorough and used by remediation experts
- Very expensive
WordSpace by Deque (pronounced D-Q)
- Enterprise level
- Very thorough and used by remediation experts
- Very expensive
- They also offer a free in-line testing extension for Firefox and Chrome for developers called aXe (replaced FireEyes)
(AMP and WordSpace tend to go back and forth between 1st and 2nd place)
Wave : Accessibility Compliance Validator - Free
- Page by page - not an "auditing tool".
- Issues are overlaid on page
- Good for non technical people (good for showing the boss for buy-in)
Tenon.io : Accessibility Compliance Auditor
- Multi-page audits and reporting
- Great for developers
- API
- Monthly rates as low as $19/mo
SortSite Accessibility Validator by Power Mapper
- They offer two versions: Desktop ($149-$849/user) and Cloud ($49/mo/user)
- Checks an entire site and provides Excel and Word reports
- WCAG 2.0 117 tests at A, AA, and AAA levels
Colour Contrast Analyser (yes, its spelled that way) by The Paciello Group
PC and Mac versions allow designers to test for proper contrast and color blindness.
"No Coffee" Vision Simulator Chrome Plugin simulates how pages appear for people with various vision issues.