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Accessibility Color Wheel - http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php
A tool to help choose a color pair with good contrast and suitable for text and background of accessible sites. It simulates also various kinds of color-blindness.

Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox - http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/
Toolbar to help users navigate pages, and also tools for developers to check their pages. Installation instructions and documentation.

AIS - Web Accessibility Toolbar - http://www.nils.org.au/info.aspx?page=614
Toolbar aids manual examination of pages for accessibility features. It consists of a range of functions that: identify components of a web page; facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications; simulate user experiences; provide links to references and additional resources.

Anybrowser - screen size testing - http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html
Enables you to test how your page appears at low screen resolutions - e.g. webtv, 640x480, 800x600.

AskAlice - http://askalice.ssbtechnologies.com/
Free report (registration required) provides an assessment of a site's accessibility, and information on how to improve.

ATRC Web Accessibility Checker - http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/
Analyses a page for conformance with WCAG 1.0 and 2.0, BITV 1.0, Section 508, and the Stanca Act.

Color Vision - by Cal Henderson - http://www.iamcal.com/toys/colors/
Test your website foreground/background colors for their contrast and clarity to color blind visitors.

Color-Blind Design Evaluation - http://newmanservices.com/colorblind
Online tool to show what your site colors look like to color-blind people.

Colorblind Web Site Filter - http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
View your actual web pages through the eyes of visitors with three different types of color blindness.

Cynthia Says Portal - http://www.contentquality.com/
Accessibility agent offering validation for WAI standards and Section 508 compliance. Includes information and news from the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter.

Erigami Accessibility and Quality Validation Tool - http://checkwebsite.erigami.com/accessibility.html
Checks web page accessibility on compliance with WCAG and Section 508, including automatic color contrast validation of text elements. It shows issues on a web page screenshot, measures response and download times of every element.

GrayBit Grayscale Contrast Tool - http://graybit.com
Converts your page to greyscale to ensure there is sufficient visual contrast between elements.

HiSoftware.Com Accessibility and Quality Tester - http://www.hisoftware.com/accmonitorsitetest/
Tests to Section 508 and WCAG standards.

Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser - http://www.juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.php
Uses the W3C algorithm to check for sufficient contrast between background and foreground colours.

Lynx Viewer - http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
Delorie online viewer enables you to view your site in a text browser.

OCAWA Accessibility Validator - http://www.ocawa.com/en/Test-your-web-site.htm
Standing for Operational Control and Analysis for Web Accessibility. OCAWA tests the accessibility of your web site using international accessibility standards.

Q42 Color Blindness Check - http://www.q42.nl/demos/colorblindnesssimulator/
View your website as someone with color blindness would. Appears to work only in IE. Bookmarklet available.

UITest.com: Site Check - http://uitest.com/en/check/
Test your website with the W3C, WDG, ATRC, WebAIM, WebXact, Bobby, Cynthia Says, HiSoftware, Site Valet, Colorblindness filter, and Google Viewer, simply by typing your site address once.

Vischeck - http://www.vischeck.com
Allows the user to see the world as color blind people see it. Checks by images and urls.

W3C CSS Validation Service - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
W3C CSS Validation service enables you to check your CSS code for validity, and warns you if you are using browser specific code.

W3C HTML Validation Service - http://validator.w3.org
A free service from W3C that checks HTML and XHTML code against the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines.

Wave - http://www.wave.webaim.org/index.jsp
Helps you check if your page is accessible to people with disabilities. New version includes tests for section 508.

WAVE 3.0 Accessibility Tool - http://www.wave.webaim.org
Online tool checks page accessibility, displays page with tags to show good and bad points.

Webnauts Net - http://www.webnauts.net/check.html
Offer a combined interface to collection of tools (W3C, CSE, and Cynthia validators, and also a Lynx simulator) for checking adherence to standards, mark-up and accessibility.

Webthing Accessibility Valet - http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html
This tool will examine your site, and based on the accesibility level you choose, will provide you with a source code listing with marks next to each element which requires attention.

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