The Thursday Three
Today’s three are all about accessibility again, but this time I’m focusing on tools that will help you create more accessible sites. I personally use each of these, and find them very useful. This is not a sales pitch, either, as all of them (at the time of writing this) are free to use and platform independent.
WAVE and the WAVE Toolbar
From the WAVE site:
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.
Color Oracle
From the Color Oracle site:
Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
Color Oracle applies a full screen color filter to art you are designing – independently of the software in use. Eight percent of all males are affected by color vision impairment – make sure that your graphical work is readable by the widest possible audience.
Odiogo
From the Odiogo site:
Odiogo’s media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
