W3C WCAG tools?

> Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?

David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>

> Jeremy wrote:
>
> > Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> > that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
>
> http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html seems reasonable, but it should be
> noted that accessibility is not something that can be easily measured by a
> machine, many checkpoints need the human touch. No tool can currently[1]
> replace a stong understanding of the issues involved.
>
> [1] and won't until we develop really really good AIs.
>
>

> Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?        

> > Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> > that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?        
>
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tools/
> (should be) a fairly good list of 'automatic', semi-automatic and
> manual tools.
>
> Make sure you read http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/acctools.html
> before using anything 'automatic'.
>
> If I had to recommend *one* tool it'd be Opera 7. If I had to
> recommend one *automatic* tool it'd be AccessValet for general purpose
> or Vischeck for good quality semi-automatic checking.
>
> What I'd *really* recommend is that you read around the accessibility
> (and usability, and good authoring practice) literature and learn to
> check things using only the power of your mind. Collected links
> (desperately in need of categorisation, sorting, etc) at:
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/resources/
>
> There's a quick accessibility tutorial at:
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tutorial/
> which you could practice using various tools on. It's no better than
> any other generally inaccessible set of pages for this, except that
> the answers are also available.
>
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