Frameworks and Libraries

In this section you can find various frameworks and libraries to help you produce, test and evaluate accessible web content and applications. These tools can provide valuable support in order to create products that conform to web accessibility standards and guidelines.

Resources

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Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android

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As its name suggests, the Google Accessibility Test Framework for Android is an open source framework developed by [Google]/https://www.google.com) to help developers test and evaluate the accessibility of their android applications.

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AblePlayer

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To describe what AblePlayer is, we can simply leverage a slogan you can find on its official repository: AblePlayer is a “fully accessible cross-browser HTML5 media player”.

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Math Capable Assistive Technology (MathCAT)

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Currently under active development, Math Capable Assistive Technology (MathCAT) is an open source library aimed at generating speech, braille, and navigation for Math formulas for assistive technology users.

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Tesseract

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Initially developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP), and after by Google, Tesseract is an open source project that provides two different (yet related) things: an OCR engine (called libtesseract), available as a framework; a command line program (called tesseract), that allows performing a complete OCR process leveraging the features provided by the “libtesseract” framework.

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Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP)

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The Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) allows you to make the User Interface (UI) of your Unity based game accessible to blind and visually impaired players on Windows, Android, iOS, Mac and WebGL.

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HTML_CodeSniffer

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HTML_CodeSniffer is a JavaScript library designed to be “injected” within any web page to “Check that your HTML code conforms to your coding standard”. Once executed, it checks the source code of a web page looking for “violations” of a given coding standard.

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Mozilla TTS

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Being developed under the umbrella of the Mozilla Foundation (the same foundation who develops the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client), Mozilla TTS is an open source framework whose goal is to simplify the creation of Text to Speech (TTS) voices based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques.

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Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI)

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The assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating systems; it defines APIs and communication protocols required to make desktop applications accessible and enables assistive technologies (such as the gnome-orca screen reader to work within such applications.

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Liblouis Braille Translator

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Named in honor of Louis Braille, Liblouis is an open-source library that provides support for braille translation and back-translation. It features support for computer and literary braille, supports contracted and uncontracted translation for many languages and has support for hyphenation.

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PdfKit

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PDFKit is a JavaScript library that works both in browser and Node.JS based environments that makes generating complex (eventually printable) PDF documents easy. It provides a simple API, thus makes handling complex tasks a breeze.

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Accsupp

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Accsupp is an experimental package that provides a low level interfaces for programmers to tag page fragments in PDF documents to improve their accessibility. In other words, it helps making PDF documents generated from LaTeX sources compliant with PDF/UA, and therefore accessible!

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Axessibility

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Axessibility is an experimental LaTeX package whose goal is to help authors generate accessible PDF documents from their LaTeX files. It has been designed as an ongoing research project by the Math department at University of Torino, Italy.

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