So, you’ve done all you can to make your site fully accessible. And now you have to test it! There are many different methods and opinions of what the best way is, as Dennis explains, and auto-checker applications are only a small piece of the pie.
Great tools for testing web accessibility:
- Cythia Says
- A-Prompt
- Watchfire WebXACT
Firefox Web Developer ToolbarAccessibility Toolbar (IE 5+)- Testing with Screenreaders from WebAim
- WAVE from WebAim
- ATRC Web Accessibility Checker
- Opera 8
UDPATE AUG 2009!
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Since you were asking for inexpensive screen readers: Mac OS X comes with one straight out of the box named VoiceOver, at no additional cost. As does Solaris 10 (which itself is available for free as well), which ships with Gnopernicus and has another screen reader named Ocra.