Accessible Materials

A helpful tool for a quick test for one or several web pages. You might need to spend some time to decipher the report. This tool will not always work on licensed content.

Useful if you have access to the source code of the page. You can test one web page anonymously or you can create an account that allows you to test up to 25 web pages as well as the option to archive the test results for future review. Note that this tool reflects Illinois state law and UIUC guidelines.

A free screen reader. Only works in Internet Explorer.

Test HTML code against WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 standards.

A free screen reader application for Windows computer. It's not as comprehensive as JAWS screen reader software, but it's quite comparable. Donation is encouraged so the developer can keep it up to date.

Might need to download an app from their site.

Formerly known as "Firefox Accessibility Extension" this is a free, open source based tool to evaluate web pages for WCGA 2.0. compliance using the HTML5 and ARIA standards. You can also find find AInspector WCAG on the Mozilla Add-on site.

This is a useful tool if you work on developing a website. While they don't include accessibility assessment as part of the tools, the Responsive Design Mode tool is especially useful to help you see how the website would look like on different devices such as tablets and phones.

This tools helps you to assess web content for accessibility issues. Useful if you especially need to assess protected web content such as on a test server or requires a login first.

This tools helps you to assess web content for accessibility issues. Useful if you especially need to assess protected web content such as on a test server or requires a login first.

Developed by North Carolina State University, this tool allows you to analyze text color contrast problems on a web page according to the WCAG 2 color contrast requirement.

Additional tools from W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

Techniques, documents, tools and checklists related to web accessibility from Paul J. Adam, accessibility consultant for Deque Systems.

Developed by the Paciello Group, this tool helps you check color contrast against WCAG 2.0 criteria.

Developed by Deque, the tool offers a couple of approaches: install it as a bookmarklet or using their web form to test part of a web page. The source code of the boomarklet is provided. Note: this tool does not check the raw HTML.

Developed by Khan Academy, tota11y is an accessibility visualization toolkit that helps visualize how a web page performs with assistive technologies. Included in the toolkit is an experimental option to see how a page will be viewed as a screen reader would.