1. Bobby 5.0 Desk Top
   Watchfire Bobby 5.0 is a comprehensive web accessibility desktop testing tool designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines, including Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act and the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Bobby spiders through a website and tests to see if it meets several accessibility requirements, including readability by screen readers, the provision of text equivalents for all images, animated elements, audio and video displays. Bobby can see local web pages, as well as web pages behind your company's firewall. It performs over 90 accessibility checks. During a scan, Bobby checks HTML against select accessibility guidelines and then reports on the accessibility of each web page.
   
   $299 US dollars for the Bobby 5.0 desktop version
2. AccVerify Cynthia Says Edition
   The Cynthia Says portal educates users in the concepts behind Web site accessibility. The simple, well-designed interface puts accessibility compliant code within the reach of all users, even those with little or no knowledge of Web design. The Cynthia Says portal provides feedback to users in a reporting format that is clear and easy to understand. Accessibility issues are detected within web sites from Web-based applications, dynamic pages, or static HTML pages. Users get an immediate status of their Web site accessibility.
   
   The Cynthia Agent tests your page against programmatic test groups for Section 508 or W3C WCAG 1.0 Accessibility Guidelines. Please remember that in addition to these checks there are checks that must be manually performed. These manual tests are listed in your report!
   
   You can obtain the Same features of the Cynthia Says portal and more for your desktop. This special edition of AccVerify is being made available to help educate web content developers on the development of accessible web sites. Best of class and the lowest price in the industry! $99 US dollars.
3. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
   Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides the most complete set of tools available for building, editing, and maintaining accessible websites and web applications. Dreamweaver MX 2004 offers many improvements for users of assistive technologies, as well as for individuals seeking to create accessible web content and web applications.
4. Hi-Softs Accessible Form Creator
   The HiSoftware Accessible Form Creator allows you to create forms for web sites containing all the additional markup required to make the forms accessible under Section 508 standards and the W3C WCAG 1.0 Priority 1-3 Guidelines.
5. Site Valet 2.0
   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.
6. A-Prompt
   A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a software tool designed to help Web authors improve the usability of Web pages created in HTML format. A-Prompt first evaluates an HTML Web page to identify barriers to accessibility by people with disabilities. A-Prompt then provides the Web author with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs. The tool's evaluation and repair checklist is based on accessibility guidelines created and maintained by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium.
7. Dolphin Systems
     - Lunar Screen Magnifiers
     - Hal -Screen readers
     - Supernova and Lunar Plus - combo programs
   Since its inception as Dolphin Systems in the UK in 1986, Dolphins mission has been to create software that enables visually impaired PC users to gain full access to industry - standard computer systems, not only at home, but also in the workplace and education from elementary to the highest vocational level.
8. Textualise
   Textualise can do all this for you at a fraction of the cost of rewriting your website. Textualise is designed to bring your site as close as possible to compliance with all relevant accessibility guidelines, including the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It transforms each page as it is viewed, removing elements that text-to-speech browsers can't handle, and allowing users to choose their screen colors and font sizes to alleviate problems with near-sightedness and color-blindness.
9. Web Formator
   Have you always just wanted to lean back and have a webpage read to you? An entire universe of knowledge, entertainment and fun at your disposal ! Our brand new software displays the content of a web page, as it is shown in the Internet Explorer, in a separate window, where you can have it read to you at any time. Works with Windows and all other screenreaders.
10. JAWS for Windows
    The most popular screen reader worldwide, JAWS for Windows works with your PC to provide access to today's software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computer's sound card, information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information, education and job related applications. JAWS also outputs to refreshable Braille displays, providing unmatched Braille support of any screen reader on the market
11. XStandard
    XStandard is an ActiveX plug-in designed to be integrated into browser or Windows-based content management systems. Once integrated, it creates a WYSIWYG editing area used by business authors to manage rich content in any language. XStandard is the first commercially available WYSIWYG editor that generates clean XHTML 1.1 code.

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