[Mailman-Developers] Accessibility Testing Tools (was Re: Hi! I'll be your intern for the summer :))

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Thu Jun 29 22:25:20 CEST 2006


If you have OSX10.4 Tiger there is a built-in screen reader called Voice Over.  I believe it is command-F5 to bring it up, but could be wrong there.  I have only used it briefly, and not at all with the web, but could probably get access to a machine at work.

Dave

At 11:54 AM 6/29/2006, emf wrote:
>Laura Carlson wrote:
>
>> David Andrews already mentioned the demo versions of JAWS and 
>> Window-Eyes [1].
>
>I'll use the firefox jawsy thing and see what I can do past that point 
>once I get windows on this box.
>
>> Home Page Reader [3] is also a good tool for web developers and 
>> designers who are looking to try out a speaking browser.
>
>I think I can make OS X read pages, too, so I'll poke into that.
>
>> One of the tools that I have my students use is to test forms is the 
>> WAVE. [5]  It will spot violations like missing labels, labels not 
>> associated with inputs, empty labels, etc. and notify you with icons. 
>> [6]
>
>Great! I will use that and Cynthia.
>
>> There's a great little Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension [8] 
>
>OOh, neat! I heart firefox's extensibility. I already use color-scheme 
>generators (and stay away from shade-changes only), but this will be a 
>help, as I happen to be a boy blessed with a fully functioning X 
>chromosome and have no colour blindness.
>
>~ethan
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