About Accessibility

This page contains links to policy and services to help improve your accessibility and your web development experience.

EU Policy related to Web Accessibility - Making the web accessible to the largest possible number of users.

Accessibility Training

Making UW Web Sites Accessible To Everyone

Accessibility checking

Accessibility Valet Demonstrator

AJAX and Accessibility - - This provides a means for updating a page without reloading it.

Making UW Web Sites Accessible To Everyone

Bobby Online Service - Well known HTML validator.

Cynthia Says - HTML validator designed to identify errors related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines.

OCAWA Web Accessibility Expert - French developed HTML checker.

Torquemada - Italian developed html checker.

TAW - Test web accessibility

UI Site check - Fill out only one form only when checking a site. Site Check lists the test results provided by important validators and accessibility tools.

WAVE 3.5 Accessibility Tool - Provides useful information about accessibility features and errors within your page. It adds icons that represent structure, content, usability, or accessibility feature or problems.

Web-based Site Usability Checker

HTML-Web-Tools & Services

HTML 4.0 Entities - Latin-1, Greek & Symbols, Others and the Unicode Character Table

HTML Authoring Services - Assists web authors to make their information available to largest audience. Provide alternate ways of viewing your pages, so you can ensure your content is received.

HTML Character Entities - It is a table with character entities for such symbols as €, ¶, √ etc.

HTML Help: CSS, HTML Checks

HTML Tidy - Check and clean HTML source files. Find and correct errors in HTML, or make code more legible.

Special Characters in HTML - ψ ω σ ♣ ♠ ‘ ’ etc.

http://www.w3.org/html/planet/ - The first working draft of the new HTML 5

http://www.w3.org/html/planet/atom.xml (feed)

CSS-Web-Tools & Services

CSS Centricle - Will the browser apply the rule(s)?

CSS Compressor - CSS Compressor. Nifty online tool for compressing CSS while retaining legibility at the same time

CSS Compressor -  An online form - takes CSS and compresses it to reduce filesize.

CSS Compressor -  An online form compresses CSS and reduces filesize.

Online CSS Optimiser - Optimizer Tool reads CSS like a browser would.

CSS Drive Gallery - Compress CSS to increase loading.

CSS Formatter and Optimiser - Select how readable or small you want your CSS to be.

CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

Icey " Projects " - icey's site,  CSS Compressor.

SelectOracle - Explains the structure of CSS- and HTML-documents. English, Spanish, German and Bulgarian versions are available.

Xylescope - Analyse complex CSS designs with ease and experiment with third-party sites

CSS/HTML templates and design

Css Editors @ css-discuss - List of css text editors, graphical web page generators and online editors for CSS, includes BBEdit, Bluefish, CrimsonEditor, EditPlus, HTMLKiT, TextPad, UltraEdit, css-Maker, Web Developer Toobar etc.

CSS-Tools and HTML-Web-Tools - TwoGun Code Creator generates HTML-Code for presenting video-clips.

Bluerobot Layout Reservoir - 2 and 3-column page skeleton CSS layouts.

Css Creator for Page Layout - Will create a CSS layout with fixed width left and/or right columns and a dynamic width center column, all the same height with header and footer.

CSS Multi-element Rollover Generator - Create two styles of rollover button, using CSS and one.

CSS Rounded Box Generator

CSS Tools - CSS Compressor — squeeze CSS and Form Elements.

Glish CSS Layout techniques - Two, 3 and 4 column skeleton CSS layouts.

Iconico Online CSS Scrollbar Color Changer

korhoen typeviewer - look at CSS typesetting and adjust it to a better readability.

List-u-Like - CSS Menu-Generator: create cross-browser list-based navigation bars easily

Little Boxes - Various box layout CSS stylesheets.

Make rounded corners without images

Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images

Open Source Web Design - Various complete page templates free for use.

Round Corner Stone/Icon (rcsi) V1.0 - Enhance the table with round corner stone!

Ruthsarian Layouts - 6 free CSS page layout templates, complete with colors, headings, etc.

The Layout-o-matic - Enter page width, columns, padding and generate CSS and HTML skeleton

W3C Core Styles – Starting to use stylesheets

Web Builders’ Toolkit - More links to template resources.

Miscellaneous tools for your web-site

80x15 Brilliant Button Maker - LucaZappa.com.

80x15 Button Maker and Generator - Blog Flux

80x15 Buttons Gallery

Accessible Data Tables

Acrobot - Abbreviation and Acronym Generator; automatically create/tags at the push of a button

Alter Table Row Background Colors with JavaScript

A Simple Character Entity Chart - Get ISO character entities and choose between the named and numeric value.

Bookmarklets to User Scripts - A Greasemonkey script, lets you turn any bookmarklet into a Greasemonkey script.

Browsercam - Check your web-site look in different browsers

Browser Simulator - Shows how a web-page is interpreted by the older browsers.

BrowserShots - How websites look different in other browsers.

Checking the links on your web-site

Conversion from Points to Pixels

Cs2Aco Converter - It is a tool to convert a Color Schemer File (.css) online to an Adobe Photoshop Color Pallete (.aco) (Dominic Lüchinger).

EffectsPack - Prototype/Effects based javascript effects - It is activeMenu, ActiveTab.

FaganFinder URLInfo - Tool for an extremely efficient handling of web pages: number of development-tools in one and URL Info helps to find information about a web-site, link popularity, validate, translate it, find related pages etc.

famfamfam.com:Icons

Favourite Javascripts for Designers - ExpandCollapse Script, Timer Layer, Style Switcher, Form Checker.

Flickr: Photos tagged with polaroidonizer - Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

Free Photoshop Website Templates

Greasemonkey - A Firefox extension for adding bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page, changing its behavior.

GreaseMonkeyUserScripts - Scripts for the everyday life in the Net.

htaccess code generator - disable hotlinking

htaccess: Guide and Introduction

ieCapture v. 0.0.4 alpha - Creates screenshots of your web-page in different browsers (currently unavailable).

Image bank - Arrows, posts, comments, mail, bullets, print, carts and bags.

Javascript Diff Algorithm - Makes it easier to correct the text you've written earlier but which isn't actual any more.

JavaScript Toolbox - Reusable Libraries And Objects - DHTML Tree, Calendar Popup, Validation & Date Functions, Sortable Table, Auto-Tab, Dynamic Option List.

Javascript DHTML Table Sort - @ BrainJar.com

Link checker & Link Valet - Broken link checker

LibrarianInBlack: Polaroid-o-nizer - Just go to Polaroid-o-nizer, grab your photo and a caption, and you're good to go.

ONLINE TOOLS & GENERATORS 02 - TwoGun Code Creator – twogun.Generates Code for inserting video-clips.

Polaroid-o-nizer - Got a photo you want to make look like a Polaroid print?

Polaroid-o-nizer - Onize your favorite moments with the Polaroid-o-nizer.

Screen size simulator

Semantics extractor

slayeroffice - web experiments gone horribly awry - Favelets, Web Based Dev Tools, DOM/Javascript, Javascript Functions etc.

Sparkline Generator Web Application - Generator of small graphic charts which can be inserted within text on a page.

Textarea tools - It is a collection of tools for use with textareas (or input fields).

The Amazing Rolloverer - A tool for generating Javascript-free, accessible, flicker-free menubars.

The Box Office 0.3 - Reduce the time for creating transparant div's so text will go round the contours of an object inside an image.

Toys - dhtml and javascript libraries, demos and applications - @ Cross-Browser.com

Tools - Connectedy - twogun.de code creator · CFDG · Context Free · ImageCrop.com

Useful tools for web design

Vischeck Colour Blindness simulator

Web Apps Compendium v1.0 || kuro5hin.org - Compilation of web apps; including Search Engine Optimization Web Apps, Search Web Apps, RSS Web Apps, Content Generation Web Apps, Tagging / Bookmark Web Apps, HTML / Design Web Apps, News Web Apps, Misc. Web Apps.

Web Developer Extension for Mozilla and Firefox - Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

Web Page Analyzer - Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis.

Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer

Webmaster-Resource Tools - Find : CSS Generator, DHTML Transition Effects, Video Link Generator, Javascript Messagebox-Generator, Javascript MouseoOver-Link Generator, Link-Checker, Punkt/Inch/Millimeter-Convertor, Loading-, Link-Popularity-, Submission-Checker, Meta-Tag Generator, Bannergenerator etc.

Webworker Tool-Site - Code-Generator zum Einbinden von Videoclips in eine webseite.

X Library, Demos & Applications - Cross-browser DHTML javascript library, with demos, applications, articles and documentation.

DOM

Bmaccess: Tag dom - Dom-Drag-Crop Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP

cssQuery - Powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors.

flavius.ro - DOM-Scripted Lists, Revisited · DOM: Dom-Drag-Crop

Gecko DOM Reference

DOM: Intelligent DOM Scripting

DOM: Mouseover DOM Inspector - This favelet allows you to view the properties of any HTML element on a page simply by mousing over the element.

DOM-Scripted Lists, Revisited

DOMSlides - Yet another DOM/CSS based presentation slides system.

Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style @ nickrigby.com

Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP

Fonts, Pixelfonts, Font Browsers etc.

100 Seriously Free Fonts - @ dafont.com

fontleech - It is a constantly-growing index of the best free font sites on the web.

FontBrowser - Displays a listing of the fonts you have installed and provide a preview of them at different text sizes.

Font guide

Fontsmack - SIFR, TrueType (sans-serif, serif) and PostScript fonts.

Font Type Navigator

Free Professional Fonts

Identifont - Identify a font - Answer questions about letter shapes to narrow down choices. Sometimes it works well but worth trying with good sample characters.

Minifonts.com - Pixelfonts

Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts

Pixelfonts: Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts

Serif or Sans? - It is a "typerator" which helps to select a perfect font for your site.

WhatTheFont - Helps you determine the font used in an image.

RSS

- Among them "Find out what people are saying about you, your company or your product online", "Get notified of bargains at Ebay" etc.

15 Things You Can Do With RSS - Blogging news, hacks, and reviews including WordPress 1.5 themes and templates.

 15 things you can do with RSS - Found this on Tim Yang's Geek Blog: 15 things you can do with RSS.

Ping-o-Matic - Pinging lets blog services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters, RSS Workshop -  15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away)

 Things you can do with RSS - Things you can do with RSS

RSS: NewsIsFree - A catalog of RSS feeds - updated every 15 minutes.

RSS Newsniche - RSS-Tutorial with RSS Publishing Tools, RSS Feed Directories, RSS Submission Tools, RSS Validators, RSS Publishers FAQ, RSS Subscribers FAQ, et al.


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