Tools

In this section you can find various standalone tools (browser extensions, web services, command line tools, etc) that can help you produce accessible content, as well as test and evaluate the accessibility of existing resources (documents, web pages, applications, etc.).

Resources

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TotA11Y

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Being introduced with the slogan “an accessibility visualization toolkit”, TotA11Y is a tool that allows you to test and evaluate the accessibility a web page. It performs several automated accessibility tests, altering the visual rendering of the examined page to reflect the detected issues.

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Mathpix

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Mathpix is a cloud platform designed to author, edit and distribute scientific documents (e.g. journal articles, research papers), especially when they contain Math formulas; it provides a web service, a desktop application (available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux), and a mobile app (that supports both Android and iOS).

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JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing

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As the name implies, JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing is a suite of bookmarklets designed to let you test and evaluate various aspects of your web content accessibility.

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StreamText.Net

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StreamText is a commercial platform for creating and delivering captions over the internet. It is compatible with all speech to text platforms, and supports a wide variety of caption delivery requirements.

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YouDescribe

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Audio descriptions play a critical role in order to ensure that video content is accessible to blind and visually impaired people: generally speaking, audio descriptions contain a “description” of those scenes that couldn’t be understood otherwise (e.

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Otter.ai

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Powered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Otter is a virtual assistant who can help you transcribe in real time in-person, hybrid and virtual meetings. The web service can be integrated in some of the most common conferencing systems (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet).

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Pico TTS

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Initially developed by SVox (a Swiss company acquired in 2011 by Nuance), Pico TTS is a multilingual, open source speech synthesizer that can run many operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android.

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PDF Accessibility Validation Engine (PAVE)

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Developed by the ICT-Accessibility Lab of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in collaboration with the Swiss Federation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, PAVE (PDF Accessibility Validation Engine) is an award-winning web service designed to evaluate and improve the accessibility of PDF documents.

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Access8Math

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Access8Math is an add-on for the NVDA screen reader that provides a lot of very useful features to help blind and visually impaired people work with Math formulas and expressions, no matter their complexity degree.

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MathPlayer

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Initially developed by Design Science (now acquired by Wiris) to support rendering and displaying Math equations written in MathML for Internet Explorer, MathPlayer is a tool that plays a critical role with regards to Math accessibility on the Web.

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Abbyy FineReader PDF

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Introduced by their creators as “the smarter PDF solution”, Abbyy FineReader PDF is de-facto the leading solution with regards to digitizing documents by means of an OCR process, both scanned images and image-PDF files.

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Chatty Infty

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Developed as part of the “Infty” project, ChattyInfty is can be seen as an extended version of InftyEditor. In fact, it is a commercial desktop application for Microsoft Windows that includes all features provided by InftyEditor making them much more powerful!

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