Tools

Color Oracle is an easy-to-use app that ensures a user's content is accessible to individuals with color vision impairments. In other words, the app assists creators in making "graphical work [that] is readable by the widest possible audience." The free simulator is compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux. The Usage tab demonstrates how the...

This tool, made available by TPGi, can be used to "determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators." Colour Contrast Analyser features include: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 compliance indicators, several ways to set colors, support for alpha transparency on...

This website from the Graphic Artists Guild provides disability access symbols. These symbols are intended for users to advertise "... accessibility to employees, customers, audiences, and anyone else who needs access to [their] building or offices. Examples of places to promote accessibility include advertisements, newsletters, conference and...

EquatIO is a software that allows users to create math equations, scientific formulas, and graphs. There are options to input equations using speech recognition, typing, or handwritten via a touchscreen or mouse pointer. EquatIO also has a screenshot reader to recognize math expressions in image format. Users can try EquatIO for free and can...

This tool, made available by Squiz, is a client-side script that checks HTML source code and detects violations of a defined coding standard. The tool can be used by running HTML_CodeSniffer inside a browser after a bookmarklet has been added to the bookmarks bar. The sample public version will check a site for conformance with the Web Content...

This resource, available on GitHub, is an open-source comprehensive checklist of inclusive web design that can be used to ensure that a website is accessible, performs well, supports a range of devices, is interoperable with other tools, and uses clear language. The code for this tool is available for download in MD and JSON formats.

Microsoft Office Lens is an application for Android devices that digitizes documents and converts them to files. With this app users can capture images of physical documents and convert them to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF (.pdf) files. This app can be used to capture images of whiteboards, blackboards, printed documents, and...

Microsoft Office Lens is an application for iPhones and iPads that digitizes documents and converts them to files. With this app users can capture images of physical documents and convert them to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), and PDF (.pdf) files. This app can be used to capture images of whiteboards, blackboards, printed documents, and...

Neo Smartpen is an audio and note taking tool that enables users to write on digital paper, which can then be digitized and manipulated digitally. This paper can be purchased from the company or downloaded as .pdf files. In order to use the tool, users can download an app for iPhone and Android that will connect to the pen over Bluetooth. Users can...

The NVDA screen reader is available free for download from NV Access. "NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications." Some of the major features include: Support for popular applications such as web browsers, email clients, internet chat software, music...