The Bobby Validator will check for USA 508 Guideline compliance. It will show your page in the reader screen and then tell you if it passes or not, It also tells you what needs to be checked manually also as the online tester is not set up for every kind of text.
Cynthia Says validator has a text box and you pick at what level you want to test 508 or 1,2,3, Cynthia Says just like Bobby will tell you if you pass or fail and what the errors are. Cynthia Says can get more detailed than Bobby.
The W3C-WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guide lines for Accessibility explained. This is the group that posts and makes the standards for the internet. They do not have a validator but what they have is the guide lines to check and examples on how to make your site Accessible.
The tool may be customized to check for different conformance levels, based on the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. If an accessibility problem is detected, A-Prompt displays the necessary dialogs and guides the user to fix the problem. Many repetitive tasks are automated, such as the addition of ALT-text
When you install the WAVE toolbar in your browser, all you have to do is go to the Web page that you want to evaluate, then click on "WAVE this page!" or type in the Web address of the page you want to view, using the "WAVE a different page" field. Then just view the page and follow the icons and warnings or errors. You can set your level from 508 to AAA.
Site Valet will check your Validation, Accessibility, Diagnostics for Forms, Scripts and HTTP, Markup Analysis and Processing , HTML, XML and EARL, Link Checking, and Spell checking. Site Valet and WebThing's wide range of Quality Assurance Tools are top notch, you can even check out the Link Valet, Access Valet, and Page Valet to see how each seperate tools works.
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