Accessibility Links

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

WAI, a branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), works in coordination with organizations around the world to pursue Web accessibility through five primary areas: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.

Cynthia Accessibility Checker

The Cynthia Accessibility Checker analyzes Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities as well as their compatibility with various browsers. Please visit our Accessibility Guidelines page, which explains how to identify and correct the errors that might occur on your site.

WebAim

Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM) is administered through federal grant with the goal to improve accessibility to online learning opportunities for all people; in particular to improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities who currently may have a difficult time getting access to postsecondary online learning opportunities.

Browser Compatibility

AnyBrowser.com - checks HTML documents to insure they are viewable in leading browsers. Also checks HTML documents against older browsers.
Webmonkey - provides an easy-to-use chart comparing supported features for browsers running in a Windows, Mac, UNIX/LINUX, or other operating environment.

HTML Page Checkers

W3C HTML Validation - checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.
Doctor HTML - Web page analysis tool, which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds.

Link Checkers

W3C Link Checker –Checks HTML or XHTML documents and extracts a list of anchors and links. It checks to insure that no anchor is defined twice. It then checks that all the links are dereferenceable, including the fragments. It warns about HTTP redirects, including directory redirects. It can check recursively a part of a Web site.
AnyBrowser.com - Checks the validity of links in any static Web page. Provides a simple report summary of links on a page. Note: This service only works for static Web pages. When entering a directory you‘ll need to add a slash ‘/‘ to the end of the URL.