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Evaluation and Validation Tools

Overview of evaluation and repair tools

There is a long list of evaluation and repair tools available at:
www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html

W3C Markup Validation Service

On this page you can validate the markup code of your pages. A great way to check the quality of the markup of a website. Validate a page by URL or by file upload.
http://validator.w3.org

W3C CSS Validation Service

Validate your CSS style sheets by URL, pasting the code in a text box or uploading the file.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Snoop

With this on line tool you can test what a page looks like when not all functions are supported by a browser. For example, you can test what a page looks like if style sheets are turned off.
www.accessibility.nl/testen/snoop/


Browsers and Browser Tools

Accessibility Toolbar in Internet Explorer

The Accessibility Toolbar gives you many tools to use in Internet Explorer, for example, the ability to turn off style sheets, outline deprecated elements, tables, show meta tags, view a page in grey scales.
www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar

Mozilla Firefox and the Web Developer Toolbar

The Web Developer Toolbar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser. This toolbar gives you many options that come in handy when testing a website. For example it can replace images with alt attributes, point out images without an alt attribute, disable JavaScript, disable or enable­ style sheets. It is also very helpful when testing structural elements for priority 2 of the WCAG 1.0 guidelines.
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

Opera

The Opera browser makes it easy to toggle images­ on and off on a web page. You can also see a web page with different style sheets by choosing Author Mode. You can then see a page with alternative­ style sheets, for example a high contrast style sheet
www.opera.com

WebFormator

WebFormator is a plug-in for Internet Explorer. It outputs a stripped textual version of a website that a speech synthesizer and Braille display use.

Accessibility Bookmarklets

The Bartiméus Accessibility Foundation has a collection of bookmarklets available that helps you test pages in Internet Explorer. A very good bookmarklet­ is 01.1. It shows you every image displayed on a web page, with specifics of the alt attributing (lacking, empty or content of the alt attribute). Note that not all tools or browser tricks work on pages in a frame set!

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