{"id":57,"date":"2008-07-04T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:31:52","slug":"great-resources-for-checking-web-pages-for-disabled-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/2008\/07\/great-resources-for-checking-web-pages-for-disabled-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Great resources for checking web pages for disabled accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am no expert on checking accessibility of web sites, but I use a couple tools that can help quickly check web pages:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Install the Fangs extension in Firefox <\/strong>(available at <a title=\"Fangs download site\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/fangs\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/fangs<\/a>). Then, from the Tools menu, select Fangs. You will get a page as &#8220;seen&#8221; by someone who uses a screen reader. Screen readers can be set to read the &#8220;headers&#8221; on the page, allowing a blind visitor to hear and scan the headlines like visual visitors do. (You may have to select &#8220;Settings&#8221; then &#8220;Sectioned&#8221; to see the blue highlights for the headers.)<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Check pages online at<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a title=\"ADTRC web site\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090626230300\/http:\/\/checker.atrc.utoronto.ca:80\/index.html\">http:\/\/checker.atrc.utoronto.ca\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\nThe Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto provides this service to quickly check web pages. While it is often hard to get a page to rate completely accessible, this site really helps find your blatant mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am no expert on checking accessibility of web sites, but I use a couple tools that can help quickly check web pages: 1. Install the Fangs extension in Firefox (available at http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/fangs). Then, from the Tools menu, select Fangs. You will get a page as &#8220;seen&#8221; by someone who uses a screen reader. Screen readers can be set to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-the-web","tag-accessibility","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}