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Sample Validators and Other Utilities
Note this is an abbreviated sub-set of the tools and
utilities on the DA2C 'web building support disc'
Links checked and valid: 12:00:50 PM Mon, Feb 22 2010
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Disabled Access to ComputingSample Validators and Other UtilitiesNote this is an abbreviated sub-set of the tools and Links checked and valid: 12:00:50 PM Mon, Feb 22 2010 |
| HTML, XHTML, CSS | Accessibility | Visual Impairment Accessibility | Misc, Broken Links, Etc. |
Validate your HTML, CSS, and other Web file types with these HTML validators. There is an HTML validator, a CSS validator, an XHTML validator, an RSS and Atom validator, and a P3P Validator
This validator uses the W3C to validate your HTML against the HTML specification.
This validator uses the W3C to validate your style sheet against the CSS specification.
This validator uses the W3C to validate your XHTML against the XHTML specification.
This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.
Validate by URI - or - Validate by File Upload - or - Validate by Direct Input
This form will test your site against the U.S. section 508 standards or the WCAG standards.
Make sure to use the HTML validator, XHTML validator, and CSS validator before you use the accessibility validator, so that you have accurate code.
is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page. http://wave.webaim.org/
Check the accessibility of your web page. Worldspace is an accessibility analysis tool designed to identify errors with Section 508, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. http://worldspace.deque.com/wsservice/eval/checkCompliance.jsp
What pages will look like (sort of) when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
People with colour blindness or other visual impairments as well as people browsing the Web under less than ideal circumstances (bad monitor, window reflections, sunlight hitting the screen) may not be able to read the text, at least not without difficulty.
Use our Colour Blindness Simulator to reveal how your images may appear to users with a variety of colour blindness conditions. Upload a JPEG image of no more than 1000 pixels x 1000 pixels (100 KB filesize or less) to see how colour blind users may see it. http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/
Select a visual impairment and view any web page. This is visually very impressive. Use for converting entire web pages. All text colours, background colours AND GRAPHICS are all converted. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer. http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
Try Vischeck on Your Image Files
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.phpis an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the pages perceived contrast. http://graybit.com/main.php
Comprehensive colour scheme selector. Allows you to see it as a colour-blind user would. Can display an entire example web page. http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Pick a background colour then select a suitable foreground colour. Colour contrast ratio is shown with an example of text. http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php
Analyse Luminosity Contrast Ratio. http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php
Check the contrast of two colours using the W3C's colour contrast algorithm by specifying the colours directly. http://juicystudio.com/services/aertcolourcontrast.php
Check links and anchors in Web pages or full Web sites. http://validator.w3.org/checklink/
Inspect the HTTP headers that your web server is sending along with your files. Use this to verify that the correct MIME type (the Content-type: line) is being sent for each file type. http://www.delorie.com/web/headers.html
Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words. Typical Fog Index Scores. TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain (6). Reader's Digest (8). Most popular novels (8 - 10). Time, Newsweek (10). Wall Street Journal (11). The Times, The Guardian (14). Academic papers (15 - 20). Only government sites can get away with this, because you can't ignore them. (>20). The government is covering something up (>30). http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php
Allows you to remove specific tags. http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html
Makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here. http://browsershots.org/
The Website test verifies the server status, downloads the full HTML content and measures the response time of the test website. The test results display the times for DNS lookup, connect, download the first byte and download the complete HTML of the tested website. http://www.websitepulse.com/help/tools.php