Automated Testing Tools
To assistance in the manual testing process you can use a number of tools and assistive technologies, the following is not a complete list of the tools you can use, but these are the tools currently use on a daily basis be developers make sure their websites are accessible:
Tools
- Accessibility Inspector (free Mac application)
- aViewer (free desktop application for windows)
- Dom Inspector (free Firefox extension)
- Firebug (free Firefox extension)
- The Color Contrast Analyser (free desktop application for windows and Mac)
- The Web Accessibility Toolbar (free add on for Internet Explorer)
- UI Browser (NOT free Mac application)
- W3C Nu markup HTML conformance checker
Assistive Technology
- ChromeVox (screen reader for Chrome and Chrome OS)
- JAWS (Screen Reader for windows, demo version available)
- NVDA (Free open source Screen Reader for windows)
- Talkback (screen reader for Android)
- VoiceOver (Built in Screen Reader, Mac desktop and iPhone/iPod)
More Tools
Other recommended and useful tools:
- aDesigner (free open source desktop application)
- Accessibility Developer Tools (for Chrome)
- Accessibility Evaluation Toolbar(free Firefox extension)
- ARIA validator (for chrome)
- Dragon (speech recognition software)
- iOS Simulator
- Jim Thatchers Favelets
- Juicy Studio Tools (free online tools and Firefox extensions)
- Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar (free Firefox extension)
- Colour Contrast Analyser (free Firefox extension)
- Quail (Accessibility testing in the browser and on the server)
- Tenon (Tenon.io is an API that facilitates quick and easy JavaScript-aware accessibility testing)
- Wave Toolbar (free Chrome extension)
- Web Developer (free Firefox extension)
Notes:
- For a complete list of tools visit the W3C Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List. This page provides a list of evaluation tools that you can filter to find ones that match your particular needs. To determine what kind of tool you need and how they are able to assist you, see Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools.
- The tools listed above are only a few tools you should use on a regular basis, other accessibility engineers may use other tools. Find one that works for you, you may find that you will use 8-10 tools just to verify one issue.
