Websites and Tools

Websites

Ally User Group: Resources, discussion forums and all things related to the Ally Accessibility Tool.
EDUCAUSE: IT Accessibility Community Group: Academic Technology Professionals helping to lead accessibility initiatives and discussions.
Quality Matters Resource Site - free but you have to sign up
SBCTC's Library of Accessibility Resources - this is the material found in the Canvas Course that SBCTC offers on Accessibility. It is Creative Commons licensed.
The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE): Resources for education, training, advocacy and policy development.
WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind - a leader in accessibility resources and training since 1999.

Blackboard Ally: An automated accessiblity evaluation tool that works within most Learning Management Systems (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and soon with D2L)
Captioning Services: Captioning services through CaptionSync are provided via an OCCDLA HECC grant. Each quarter, unused hours are reapportioned across OCCDLA Schools.
HTMLG: Cleans documents and HTML of various formattings. Keeps Headings, bold, Italics, links, lists, images, etc. Removes things like line height, font style, font color, background color, underlined text, tabs, etc. (Cheap).

Built In Accessibility Checkers in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Professional DC: Tools built into document creation tools that check accessibility within your documents.
Grackle Suite: An accessibility checker for Google Docs and Slides.
WAVE Browser Addon: The WAVE Chrome and Firefox extensions allows you to evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within Chrome and Firefox browsers.
ARC Toolkit: Chrome browser extension from the Paciello Group which helps evaluate website accessiblity from within Chrome. Detailed information that allows you to drill down into the site.
Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0 Tool: Generates accessibility reports for websites. Can drill down three levels. Free to use - requires registration.
AXE Accessibility Tool: From Deque - Chrome and Firefox extensions help evaluate website accessibility a useful, slightly more technical tool. Good for developers.

Color Contrast Checker: Simple color contrast tool that check across applications. For Mac and PC.
HTML Color Picker: Lets you enter in colors codes or pick a color and then choose gradients based on hue, saturation, lightness.
WebAIM Color Contrast Checker: Website that lets test for color contrast and adjust colors to see how they work together.
Color Safe: Website that helps you build accessible color and font themes.
Accessible Color Palate Builder: Website that helps you choose accessible color palates.

Web Disability Simulator: Chrome Add on lets you experience how people with different disabilities or inadequate abilities perceive a web site. Simulate color blindness, low vision, dyslexia and more. An easy-to-use tool both to increase understanding and lower the threshold to test accessibility on a website.
NoCoffee: Chrome Add-on can be helpful for understanding the problems faced by people with slight to extreme vision problems.

Readspeaker: A tool for reading and speech
Aira: Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button
Vista - Higher Learning: Language teaching resource
Jaws Inspect: A tool that creates easy to review and use reports on website accessibility based on the JAWS screen reader tool (very expensive).

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