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.).
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Font Finder is a very simple browser extension (currently available for Google Chrome only, and compatible with Microsoft Edge) that allows you to easily inspect all font-related properties for each element in a web page.
Read moreAvailable for Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox (and compatible with Microsoft Edge as well), Magnifying Glass (Hover Zoom) is a simple browser extension that allows you to magnify a limited area of a web page.
Read moreBeing developed by Deque Systems (the same company behind products such as axe-core and Axe Dev Tools), this color palette contrast analyzer is a web service that allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between all colors in your color palette.
Read moreThis minimal, easy to use web service allows you to quickly test wether the contrast ratio between two colors (foreground and background) is enough for your text to be accessible.
Read moreThis service provided by WebAIM (the same company behind the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)) allows you to quickly check the contrast ratio between foreground and background colors.
Read moreFor better usability and accessibility, links should be underlined by default. Otherwise, according to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) link text must have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio with the surrounding body text, and must present a non-color indicator (typically underline) on mouse hover and keyboard focus.
Read moreAvailable for both Mozilla Firefox and google Chrome, ColorZilla is an extension that can make your life easier while testing and evaluating color contrast in your web page, or choose the right color during the design process.
Read moreOpenDyslexic is an open source typeface that aims to help with some of the symptoms of dyslexia, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5).
Read moreVoice Dream Reader is an award-winning, feature rich commercial text-to-speech reader that turns any document and ebook into audio. It provides a comprehensive set of features that make reading documents (including books and web pages) on iOS an extremely pleasant experience.
Read moreDeveloped by Giuseppe Di Grande (an Italian blind programmer), Biblos is a free, accessible word processor that provides many features that make it suitable for usage both by people with disabilities and the production of accessible content for people with disabilities.
Read moreQuoting its official web page, “IBM Watson Text to Speech is an API cloud service that enables you to convert written text into natural-sounding audio in a variety of languages and voices”.
Read moreBalabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that boasts many features to make life easier when reading text on a screen. It can read content from the clipboard, extract text from documents in many different formats, display the spoken text with customize font and background color, and control reading from the system tray or by global keyboard shortcuts.
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