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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Azure TTS

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Quoting its presentation page, Azure TTS is “a Speech service feature that converts text to lifelike speech”. Being offered as a cloud service by Microsoft, it supports over 330 voices in more than 129 languages, providing voice variants with different styles and emotional tones to make them suitable for different usage scenarios (text readers, support chatbots, ETC.

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Espeak NG

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Espeak is a lightweight, open source speech synthesizer that is available for many operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android. It supports more than 100 languages and accents.

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Google Cloud Tts

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Quoting Google, Google Cloud Text to Speech (TTS) is a cloud service that allows you to “convert text into natural-sounding speech using an API powered by Google’s AI technologies”.

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Amazon Polly

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Quoting its overview page, Amazon Polly is a cloud service offered by Amazon that lets you to “turn text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products”.

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How to Meet WCAG 2.1 (Quick Reference)

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In this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.

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Lighthouse

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Primarily developed at Google, Lighthouse is a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”. The available audits include a comprehensive, detailed accessibility report that can be generated for any web page.

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W3c Markup Validation Service

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This web service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows you to easily check wether your web page conforms to the specification of the language it is written into (e.

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TalkBack

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Developed by Google, TalkBack is a screen reader that makes it possible for blind and visually impaired people to use devices running the Android operating system or any of its variations (such as Android TV): these include smart phones, tablets, and even smart TVs and a wide variety of different devices that serve an even wider variety of user’s needs.

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Speakup

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Speakup is a screen reader for the Linux operating system that allows blind and visually impaired people to interact with console-based applications. Speakup has two main advantages when compared to other screen readers:

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Narrator

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Being developed since the early 2000’s, Narrator is a screen reader that comes preinstalled on each computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system. While being available for a long time, Narrator made huge steps forward that made it actually suitable for usage as a screen reader with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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Accerciser

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Quoting its documentation, Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI2 to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks.

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JAWS

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Advertised by its manufacturers as the “world’s most popular screen reader for windows”, Job Access with Speech (JAWS) is a commercial screen reader for Microsoft Windows that can provide feedback by using text to speech (TTS), Braille or a combination of both ones.

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