Saturday, January 21, 2017

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools (Example of use)

There are a lot of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools, or Web Accessibility Checkers as also often called, available online. The majority are completely free and very simple to use. User only has to input an URL address and wait for couple of minutes to get results, which are often very well described. That way it is easy to improve accessibility of the tested webpage or website.

One of the checkers is developed directly by W3C: http://validator.w3.org/

Some Accessibility Checkers offer HTML Editors, where user has to input his HTML code, which gets checked.

All checkers work on a principe of checking if the code is matching with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Here is quite a detailed list of available web accessibility checkers; https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/

In an example below I used AChecker to check the oficial website of FH Joanneum. (http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php)




I also checked the website with EIII checkers that I mentioned in my post about benchmarking. (http://checkers.eiii.eu/)



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