Hi James,
I use these ones
Wave: http://www.wave.webaim.org/wave/index.jsp - online checker, nicely visual, but only does one page at a time. Useful to test template pages
A-prompt http://www.aprompt.ca/ - free download, good for pre-testing sites before launch.
Vischeck http://www.aprompt.ca/ - colour blindness simulator. Also useful say, if you're publishing pie charts from excel and want to avoid colours running into each other.
Screen resolution http://juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.php#contrast - checks text to background contrast
We also run our sites through screenreaders. These can be pricey but...
NVDA http://www.nvda-project.org/ - is OK and free. downloadable - you can test your live site, or this one
Web anywhere screenreader - http://webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/ - online browser
You also said..."preferably email these on a scheduled basis" - I would also like to know about such a wondrous tool.
All the above are free.
Regards,
Ann
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Subject: Basic accessibility/QA testing tools
Hi, does anyone use, or at least know of, a good automated tool for basic accessibility/QA testing?
I'm not talking about any sort of substitute for proper evaluation, but more something that can spot immediate basic errors like missing alt text, empty links and tags (e.g. headers), missing metatitles, descriptions etc
It guess it would (nicely) crawl pages and should be able to produce reports and preferably email these on a scheduled basis.
It doesn't have to be free, but equally none of us have huge budgets!
Thanks, James
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