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Progress Status for Updating the List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

Note: the Task Force was closed by ERT WG on the teleconference of Wednesday 22 March, 2006.

This page tracks the progress of migrating the currently available list of tools to the draft searchable list. The Evaluation Tools Task Force (ET TF) is responsible for this migration. This page consists of the following sections:

Pending - In Progress

The following tools have been assigned to ET TF participants. The vendors have been contacted or will be contacted shortly.

  1. Imergo / Web Compliance Manager - Carlos Velasco / Yehya Mohammad
  2. Internet Explorer Web Accessories - Steven Faulkner
  3. The Schematron - Steven Faulkner
  4. Weblint - Steven Faulkner
  5. Altifier - Steven Faulkner
  6. Web page Purifier - Steven Faulkner
  7. Cita - Accessibility Extensions for Internet Explorer - Charles Pike
  8. NCAM - Accessibility QA Favelet - Charles Pike
  9. HTML Tidy online service - Charles Pike
  10. Web Accessibility visualizer - Charles Pike
  11. ht://Check - Sandor Heramhof
  12. checky - Sandor Heramhof

Hold - List Else Where

The following tools may not be considered to be evaluation tools in the usual sense (for example, they resemble authoring tools etc). These tools may be better listed else where.

  1. {textualise;} - Steven Faulkner (archived on 25 November, 2005)
  2. Web Intermediaries (WBI) - Steven Faulkner (archived on 25 November, 2005)

New - Unassigned Tools

The following tools have not yet been assigned to ET TF participants. These are open action items of the group.

  1. Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
  2. Colour Contrast Check
  3. Opera W3-Dev Menu
  4. Be A Nice Doc
  5. Validome
  6. XML schema validator

Done - Entry Updated

The information about the following tools have been updated by the vendors. The information is available in RDF format.

  1. Accessibility Wizard - Andrew Arch (archived on 19 December, 2005)
  2. Watchfire -
  3. Web Accessiblity Toolbar - Andrew Arch / Steven Faulkner (archived on 20 December, 2005)
  4. Vischeck - Steven Faulkner (archived on 15 December, 2005)
  5. WebKing - Steven Faulkner (archived on 13 December, 2005)
  6. Delorie Lynx viewer - Steven Faulkner (archived on 12 December, 2005)
  7. Visolve - Andrew Arch (archived on 19 December, 2005)
  8. Color Contrast Analyzer - Andrew Arch (archived on 20 December, 2005)
  9. Sidar -
  10. Infoaxia -
  11. Common Look - Carlos Velasco (archived on 12 January, 2006)
  12. AnyBrowser.com - Andrew Arch (archived on 13 January, 2006)
  13. Wrong HTML -
  14. UB Access -
  15. WDG HTML Validator - Yehya Mohammad (archived on 16 January, 2006)
  16. Juicy Studio -
  17. HiSoftware -
  18. Q42 -
  19. Torquemada - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 25 January, 2006)
  20. Reading Effectiveness Tool - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 25 January, 2006)
  21. NIST - WebMetrics Tool Suite - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 25 January, 2006)
  22. Style and Diction - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 25 January, 2006)
  23. Etre -
  24. Yellow Pipe - Lynx viewer - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  25. UsableNet -
  26. A-Prompt - Chris Ridpath (archived on 24 January, 2006)
  27. Deque -
  28. Fujitsu -
  29. Common Look and Feel Self-Assessment Guide - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 25 January, 2006)
  30. CTIC-
  31. AWARE -
  32. Colorfield Insight - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  33. Doctor HTML - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  34. NetMechanic - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  35. Reading level calculator - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  36. EveryEye - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  37. IBM - aDesigner - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 27 January, 2006)
  38. Web Accessibility Self-Evaluation Tool - Andrew Arch (archived on 3 February, 2006)
  39. Accessibility Bookmarklets - Jim Ley (archived on 4 February, 2006)
  40. HTML VALIDATOR (based on Tidy) mozilla/firefox extension - Charles Pike (archived on 6 February, 2006)
  41. drempelvrij.nl toolbar (Dutch) - Andrew Arch (archived on 10 February, 2006)
  42. SSB -
  43. Chris Pedrick - Web developer toolbar - Sandor Heramhof (archived on 17 February, 2006)
  44. Relaxed - the HTML validator - Andrew Arch (archived on 20 February, 2006)
  45. NCAM - MAGpie - Yehya Mohammad (archived on 7 March, 2006)
  46. Hermish - Chris Ridpath (archived on 7 March, 2006)
  47. Cita -
  48. Peter Krantz -
  49. GIF flicker test - Charles Pike (archived on 9 March, 2006)
  50. WebThing -
  51. WebAIM - The Wave - Shadi Abou-Zahra (archived on 12 March, 2006)
  52. W3C -
  53. Ocawa - Chris Ridpath (archived on 13 March, 2006)
  54. Office 2000 HTML Filter - Andrew Arch (archived on 14 March, 2006)
  55. PDF to HTML Converter - Andrew Arch (archived on 14 March, 2006)

Drop - Remove Entry

The following tools are either not available anymore or should be removed from the list of Web accessibility evaluation tools for another reason. Rationale for the decisions are linked after each tool.

  1. AccessEnable - Andrew Arch (archived on 17 November, 2005)
  2. Dreamweaver 508 Accessibility Suite - Carlos Velasco (archived on 10 December, 2005)
  3. Accessible Web Browser Project - Steven Faulkner (archived on 25 November, 2005)
  4. BETSIE - Steven Faulkner (archived on 25 November, 2005)
  5. IBM - i-Checker - Chris Ridpath (archived on 17 February, 2006)
  6. Dr Watson - Carlos Velasco (archived on 10 December, 2005)
  7. Muffin filtering proxy server - Andrew Arch (archived on 23 November, 2005)
  8. Navigation Power Toys for IE - Andrew Arch (archived on 23 November, 2005)
  9. The Proxomitron - Steven Faulkner (archived on 23 November, 2005)
  10. WebCleaner - Steven Faulkner (archived on 25 November, 2005)
  11. Alignment Studio - Yehya Mohammad (archived on 24 November, 2005)
  12. ALT repair kit - Yehya Mohammad (archived on 24 November, 2005)
  13. TOC Maker - Yehya Mohammad (archived on 24 November, 2005)
  14. W3C -

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Last updated on $Date: 2006/03/30 14:23:09 $ by $Author: shadi $