21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

The power of the Web is in its universality.
Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability. When the Web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability.

Thus the impact of disability is radically changed on the Web because the Web removes barriers to communication and interaction that many people face in the physical world. However, when websites, web technologies, or web tools are badly designed, they can create barriers that exclude people from using the Web.

The mission of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is to lead the Web to its full potential to be accessible, enabling people with disabilities to participate equally on the Web.

 

Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools...

 

Read more:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/RC/tools/complete

 

 

 

WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page.

 

Gust MEES: I love this one as it is showing very well where the problems are...

 

Read more and test your blog and/or web site:

http://wave.webaim.org/