Developer Snippets - An Embodiment for Developers

Introduction:

“Accessibility” which place a key role while implementing any application either it might be a Desktop Application, Web Application, Web Site related applications, since this feature makes an application accessible to the people with a disability to view, navigate the respective application either it might be a desktop applications (or) web applications. We have so many screen readers available for Windows or for any other Operating Systems, which helps us in developing a good accessible website or application. While developing a web related project or any other project, we need to implement Accessibility features into that – since this will help most of the disabled people around the world. For example: If you look at Windows Operating System, it has got the accessibility feature, people who are disabled can access or navigate through the Windows Products very easily without any problem.

This article high-lights about the Accessibility of Web Sites, if you want to make a good and awesome website with accessibility features then for this to implement and for testing the same you must need some trouble shooting tools right? yeah! just I googled and caught some Accessibility related add-ons for Firefox. Where in which you can test your web applications and can whether the respective application is fully accessible are not. Hope the below list of Accessibility add-ons might help you in building a good accessible website / web application.

Accessibility related add-ons for firefox:

1. Firefox Accessibility Extension – by Jon Gunderson, Illinois Center for Information Accessibility

Support web developers and people with disabilities in accessing and testing web resources for accessibility features.

2. Accessibilityenabled by L. David Baron

An about page, about:accessibilityenabled, to show whether accessibility API support is…

3. TAW3 with a click by Fundación CTIC

Web Accessibility Test. You can have an idea, with a single click, of how accesible web sites are.

4. ocawatoolbar by Urbilog

Audit accessibility of your web site.

5. Accessibar by Edan Kemelman

Accessibility toolbar enabling easy manipulation of web page display and text-to-speech output…

6. Qompliance by kyenos

Worldspace – Deque Section 508, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG 1, 2, and 3″) Compliance Tool. Now supports WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA

7. N-Abled Web Accessibility Toolbar by N-Abled-Dev

Provides FireFox with accessibility to the widest possible audience, regardless of disability, capability or technology.

8. Fangs Screen Reader Emulator by Peter Krantz

Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output. Helps developers find accessibility issues…

9. WAVE Toolbar by WebAIM

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Toolbar

10. WAT Q/A Extension by Cédric Trévisan

Free extension for web accessibility testing

11. Herdict Web by Jeffrey Licht

View and report on site accessibility to the Herdict Web project (http://www.herdict.org) at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society