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Consultancy Services (4 Links) (Note: JISC CETIS does not endorse these consultancy services but lists them as examples of the type of work done by such companies.)  Bunnyfoot. Bunnyfoot provide usability evaluation, accessibility audits and real user testing. 

DMAG (Digital Media Access Group). DMAG provides consultancy and research into accessible and usable design, including accessibility reviews of web sites. 

Usability Exchange. The Usability Exchange conducts disabled-user testing and provides a range of different     usability tests. 

Webcredible. Webcredible is a usability, credibility and accessibility consultancy. The website has a range of       accessibility and usability resources, including a free website assessment.

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Testing and Validation Tools (18 Links)  Accessibility Valet Accessibility Valet checks web pages online for accessibility conformance to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and Section 508. 

A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt). A-Prompt is a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) documents by evaluating web pages for accessibility barriers, and then providing dialog boxes to guide users step-by-step through the repair process.  CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) Validator. This validator from W3C checks for the proper use of CSS. </li>

Cynthia Says. Similar to Bobby, Cynthia Says is a web content accessibility validation tool, designed to identify errors related to Section 508 standards and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Its main purpose is to educate web site developers in developing web based content that is accessible to all. </li>

Evaluation, Repair and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility. A list of links from the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) for developing accessible applications and content. </li>

FAE (Functional Accessibility Evaluator). Developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the FAE analyses web page mark up for accessibility and produces an online report. Several pages can be analysed together. </li>

HTML Validation Service. Checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML recommendations and other standards. </li>

Link Valet. Checks links on a web page to ensure that they are still valid. </li>

Lynx Viewer. Lynx is a text-mode browser for navigating the Internet. Testing a site with Lynx shows whether the information is comprehensible in text-only mode. It also gives an idea of how the text will sound when read by a screen reader. </li>

Snoop. An online tool which shows what a web page would look like on browsers that do not render images, tables, frames, fonts, background colours, applets, scripts or style sheets. </li>

TAW Web Accessibility Test. TAW is a online web accessibility checker which checks web-based content according to the three WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) levels. A standalone version is also available for checking multiple web pages. </li>

TechDis Web Accessibility Self Evaluation Tool. This tool takes the form of a series of questions in a document which can be used to identify web accessibility issues. </li>

Vischeck. Vischeck shows how images and web pages will look to someone who is colour blind. </li>

WAVE Web Accessibility Validator. Checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508. </li>

WDG HTML Validator. This HTML Validator from WDG (Web Design Group) validates web pages for HTML conformance in a similar way to the W3C HTML Validation Service, but it also allows batches of 100 web pages at a time to be checked. </li>

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools. A list of over 100 different web accessibility evaluation tools from the W3C WAI (World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative). </li>

Web Accessibility Toolbar. Developed by the AIS (Accessible Information Solutions) team at NILS (National Information and Library Service in Australia. This toolbar, once installed in the browser, contains: instant links and access to various web page validators and checkers, including W3C Validators (HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Links); allows stylesheets, images and colour to be turned on and off; and has a colour contrast tool, amongst others.  </li>

Web Page Backward Compatability Viewer. This web based tool simulates the behaviour of browsers with various degrees of functionality. Pages can be tested with stylesheets turned off, scripting turned off, etc.</li></ol>

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Web Accessibility Evaluation (5 Links)  <li>Checking the Accessibility of e-Resources (TechDis Staff Pack) "This pack looks at the current international guidelines for accessibility. It also investigates the available auditing tools, how they can be used and how the results can be correctly interpreted". </li>

<li>Evaluating Website Accessibility by Roger Johansson, March 2006. A three part article which suggests tips and ways of evaluating web sites for accessibility. </li>

<li>How We Test by Web2Access, University of Southampton. A list of tests and resources for checking web accessibility, including WCAG 2.0 checks. </li>

<li>Identifying Accessible Web Resources by Open University, 2007. This guide provides a list of areas to examine in order to determine whether a website or PDF may be difficult for some students to use. . </li>

<li>Support-EAM: Supporting the Creation of an eAccessibility Mark This work explored the viability of creating an eAccessibility Quality Mark for web services. It produced a UWEM (Unified Web Evaluation Methodology) by harmonising current methodologies used for the evaluation of web accessibility.</li></ol>

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