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Bobby is a Web-based tool that analyzes Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. CAST offers Bobby as a free public service in order to further its mission to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through the innovative uses of computer technology. http://www.cast.org/bobby/
The World Wide Web Consortium offers a validator. It is theW3C HTML Validation
Service. It checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations
and other HTML standards. http://validator.w3.org/
W3C even has a Cascading Style Sheet Homepage http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
and also offers a CSS Validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Wave is another Web Page Accessibility Checking Tool developed by Pennsylvania's
Initiative on Assistive Technology PIAT
. One of the features of this validator is that "you can add a WAVE analysis
button to your browser.Then, whenever you're looking at a page in your browser,
all you'll have to do is click the button to analyze that page with the WAVE."
The validator tool is available at:
http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
Dreamweaver now offers an evaluation tool to check Web pages for their accessibility to users of assistive devices, including those with disabilities. The first of its kind for professional Web authoring software, the Dreamweaver "Check Page for Accessibility" extension alerts developers to accessibility problems and their location in source code, referring them to relevant W3C guidelines. Further, the report ensures that developers are reminded of the W3C's top priority guidelines for subjective design decisions. This Dreamweaver extension will prove an invaluable complement to existing Web-based evaluations tools, such as the "Bobby" check (http://www.cast.org/bobby),a standard online benchmark for accessibility. For information about additional accessibility features of Dreamweaver, please see "Accessibility Features in Macromedia Products" (http://www.macromedia.com/accessibility). Further information about the W3C guidelines for accessible Web content can be found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/. Access the command by choosing Command > Check Page for Accessibility."
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Web Site Updated December 8, 2000
Web Site Created November 20, 2000
By Bill Teysko, teysko@home.com
For CIS213,
Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, CA
Url: http://www.oocities.org/webaccess2k
Credits page