Accessibility Tools: Testing for Accessiblility - Section 508 Compliance

• Accessibility (ALA Support)

• Accessibility Defined (ALA Support)

WC3 list of web accessibility evaluation tools

https://www.section508.gov/

• Adobe Acrobat
  • Use Adobe Acrobat to read Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
• Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft offers file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS-Word or have another version of MS-Word to open and view MS-Word files.
• Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft offers file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS-Excel or have another version of MS-Excel to view MS-Excel files.
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft offers file viewer and converter programs to enable those who do not have MS-PowerPoint or have another version of MS-PowerPoint to view MS-PowerPoint files.
• WinZip
  • Zip files are single files, sometimes called "archives", that contain one or more compressed files. Files with this extension (.zip) require the WinZip, to open and extract them.

• WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool)

• Color Contrast Checker (Web AIM)