What web accessibility evaluation and repair tools are available?
Printable Version AccessIT Article ID: 1148 There are a growing number of tools that allow web developers to evaluate the accessibility of their web pages and sites. Many tools also prompt the developer to make specific repairs. Some tools automatically follow links to evaluate multiple pages within a site or within an entire domain. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI™) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®) maintains an extensive list of such tools in their document Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility. Although tools such as these can be very useful in identifying accessibility problems, many accessibility issues are subjective and cannot be assessed without manual inspection. For example, a software tool can identify when ALT text is missing, but it cannot determine if the text of an ALT tag is appropriate. At least one organization, IBM® Japan’s Tokyo Research Laboratory, has been working on developing a tool that attempts to intelligently
