Web Services

In this section you can find different web services that can help you develop accessible content, as well as testing and evaluate the accessibility of existing resources (web pages, applications, etc.).

Resources

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Color Palette Contrast Analyzer

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Being 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.

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Accessible Colors

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This 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.

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WebAIM Contrast Checker

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This 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.

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WebAIM Link Contrast Checker

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For 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.

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Text to Speech - IBM Watson

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Quoting 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”.

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Balabolka

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Balabolka 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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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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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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Getting Started With Lighthouse

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In this support document available from the Google Developers portal, you can find instructions on how to get started using Lighthouse, a tool that provides “Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web”.

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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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