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Summary
- Content management (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Assessment tools (17)
- Screen readers (10)
- Simulations (13)
This page is part of the portal Ideos resources on digital accessibility . It lists 46 links to software or to Plugins on digital accessibility.
Notes:
- Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010.
- If you know an online resource on digital accessibility that is not listed here, thank you submit your proposal .
- This resource portal was designed by our service business intelligence and foresight can provide you with specific studies on demand.
Content Management
ATutor
. ATutor is an Open Source solution.
This is a web content management for online training. ATutor is developed in compliance with the recommendations of accessibility and usability. |
DAISY ") Create an audio book from Microsoft Word (button "Save as DAISY")
2007, vous pouvez générer d'un simple clic un livre audio en format DAISY DTBook . By installing this plugin in Microsoft Word 2007, you can generate with a single click an audio book DAISY DTBook. |
Multimedia
JW FLV Media Player
permettant de contrôler l'affichage de sous-titres synchronisés et l'écoute d'une audio-description synchronisée pour une vidéo (consulter les fonctionnalités d'accessibilité du JW FLV Media Player ). The video player JW FLV Media Player is a Flash open source for controlling the display of synchronized captions and listening to an audio description for synchronized video (check the accessibility features of JW FLV Media Player ). |
MAG pie
permettant de rendre accessible les fichiers multimédias en facilitant la création de sous-titres et d'audio-description synchronisés. MAG pie is open source software to make it available media files by facilitating the creation of subtitles and audio descriptions synchronized.
It runs under Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT, or XP or Macintosh OSX. |
CCPlayer
Flash media player developed in open source and closed captioning for sync (but not the audio-description).
It is controllable from the keyboard. |
World Caption
permettant de créer des sous-titres synchronisés pour des vidéos en format QuickTime . World Caption is open source software to create synchronized captions for video in QuickTime format.
It runs on Mac OS X version 10.4 or higher. |
Assessment Tools
A-Prompt
A-Prompt software is designed to help Web authors to improve the accessibility and usability of web content.
The software can be downloaded and used on a computer running Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.
It uses the international recommendations for web accessibility ( WCAG 1.0 ). |
Wave
Wave is a tool for online assessment of the accessibility of Web sites created by WebAIM .
Its uniqueness compared to other online assessment tools is to display directly on the web page the results of its evaluation and not in a report.
There is also an extension for Firefox: Wave Toolbar . |
TAW (Web Accessibility Test)
TAW is a tool for online assessment of the accessibility of Web sites.
It performs an assessment of compliance against WCAG 1.0 .
There is also an extension for Firefox: 3 TAW with a click. |
AChecker
d'évaluation de l'accessibilité d'un site Web. AChecker is an open source tool for assessing the accessibility of a website.
It uses different set of criteria for accessibility (WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0, 1.0 ITCB [Germany], 508 [U.S.], Stanca Act [Italy]). |
aDesigner2
ADesigner2 tool used to evaluate the accessibility of a web page and a flash drive.
It can also simulate vision problems on a web page to make sure it is readable. |
Contrast Analyser
Contrast Analyser is a tool to verify that the color contrasts on a Web page is sufficient.
It can also simulate certain visual conditions such as blindness. |
Cynthia Says
Cynthia Says is a tool for online assessment of the accessibility of a web page according to WCAG or Section 508. |
Firefox Accessibility Extension
The plugin "Firefox Accessibility Extension" makes it easier for people with disabilities to see and browse the contents of a web page.
Developers can use the plugin to check the accessibility of a web page. |
Functional Accessibility Evaluator (ICIT)
This assessment tool for Web site accessibility provides an online report (English) for a web page.
To evaluate a Web site and receive more information, you must register. |
Web Accessibility Toolbar [IE]
Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer allows you to manually assess the accessibility of a web page. |
Web Accessibility Toolbar [Opera]
Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera manually evaluates the accessibility of a web page. |
Web Developer Toolbar [Firefox]
Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox allows you to manually assess the accessibility of a web page. |
Hera
HERA is an online tool to check the compliance of a web site compared with international recommendations for web accessibility ( WCAG 1.0 ).
It first performs an automatic analysis of the first page and errors are listed in a form, automatically detectable errors but also the rules which must be manually reviewed.
HERA facilitates this manual review by giving instructions on how to achieve this control.
The form of the assessment results to modify and add comments.
A report in different formats can be generated and different languages are available including French. |
Ocawa
Ocawa is a tool for online assessment of the accessibility of a website as recommended by WCAG or repository ADAE (a bar Ocawa be downloaded for Firefox). |
Validation Service |
Validation Service W3C CSS
This online service allows you to check the validity of the CSS and HTML styled with CSS. |
Validation Service W3C code
This online service allows you to check the validity of html documents. |
Screen readers
NVDA
NVDA is a new screen reader for free and under GPL for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. |
Firevox
Firevox is a Firefox plugin to use Firefox as a screen reader for the blind. |
Jaws
Jaws screen reader is the most widely used by blind people.
It can be downloaded online and can be used free for 40 minutes. |
Mobile Speak
Mobile Speak is a screen reader to vocalize some mobile phones on the market ( list of compatible mobile phones ). |
Talks
Talks is a screen reader to vocalize some mobile phones on the market. |
Thunder Screenreader software
Thunder Screenreader software is a free screen reader that works on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. |
VoiceOver
. VoiceOver is a screen reader for Apple. |
WebAnywhere
The University of Washington has developed software called WebAnywhere installed on a Web server.
This software (free) is an online screen reader for a blind person to use any computer with Internet and multimedia speaker allowing him to listen to the speech. |
Orca
Orca is a screen reader running Linux. |
Screen reader COBRA
COBRA is a screen reader developed by Baum. |
Simulations
A free iPhone web simulator for designers
Simulator website on the iPhone for web developers. |
Color Simulation Controls
This tool provides a simulation of colors seen by the type of color blindness. |
Color Vision
This tool simulates how the colors are seen depending on the type of color blindness. |
Colorblind Web Page Filter
This tool simulates the rendering of a page in a given type of color blindness (deuteranopia, protanopia ...). |
dotMobi Emulator
Simulate the display of your website on a mobile phone (Nokia or Sony). |
Vischeck
Vischeck provides a simulation tool line of sight can have a color blind to a Web page according to its pathology (Protanopia: perception of green and blue only, Deuteranopia: perception of red and blue only, tritanopia: perception red and green only). |
WebAIM Low Vision Simulation
WebAIM provides a Flash application to simulate visual impairment (macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma) on visual perception of a Web page.
This application is primarily aimed at web developers so they understand the importance of respecting the rules of access (avoid images and texts focus on text links to link images, code tables in relative ...). |
Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool
Lynx is a software that allows users to browse the web in text mode only.
Thus, it helps to understand how a website is presented to a blind person. Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool is a plugin that installs Firefox. Lynx can also be downloaded as software. |
Fangs
Fangs is a simulator screen reader for Firefox. |
Firefox plugin to simulate the display of your website on an iPhone
Simulate your Firefox browser to display a website on an iPhone. |
Safari
. Web browser from Apple to simulate the display of a Web site on different browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera) as well as a phone iPhone. |
Simulator website on an iPhone
Test your website when it is accessed via an iPhone. |
Test your website on an iPhone simulator
Simulator website on the iPhone. |
