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• ANDI

  Accessible Name & Description Inspector (ANDI) is a free accessibility testing tool used to check websites for compliance with web accessibility standards. This tool functions as a “bookmarklet,” and overlays its results directly onto the page, making accessibility issues visible and easy to inspect.

• Accessibility Scanner for Android

  Accessibility Scanner is a free Android app from Google that automatically analyzes an app’s user interface for common accessibility issues, such as small touch targets, low text contrast, and unlabeled images. It highlights these problems with suggestions for improvement, helping developers and testers identify and fix barriers to make their apps more inclusive for people with disabilities.

• Accessibility Inspector for IOS

  Accessibility Inspector is a developer tool within Xcode that helps creators test and debug the accessibility of iOS, macOS, and other Apple platform apps by auditing for common issues, displaying accessibility information for UI elements, and testing how the app interacts with system accessibility features. It functions as a diagnostic tool to ensure apps are usable by people with disabilities, identifying problems such as missing element descriptions, insufficient contrast, and navigation issues.

• Testing Tools for Linux .

  List of accessibility testing tools for Linux. Here, you will find several types of tools compatible with Linux systems. Compare the top Web Accessibility Testing tools for Linux, read reviews, and discover pricing and free demos.

• Sensus

  LSensus Access is a one-stop self-service, alternate media, and document remediation service for educational institutions. Sensus Access enables students, faculty, and staff to automatically convert documents into a range of alternative media, including audio books (MP3 and DAISY), e-books (EPUB, EPUB3, and MOBI), digital Braille, digital large-print, and Beeline Reader.

• Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

  Adobe accessibility is the suite of initiatives, principles, and features designed to make Adobe’s products and content usable by people with disabilities. This involves building accessible software, enabling the creation of accessible PDFs by ensuring proper structure and tagging, and providing tools like the Accessibility Checker in Acrobat to identify and fix issues in documents, ultimately fostering a digital environment that is inclusive for everyone.
  • Adobe Express and Acrobat Pro. How to access and install Adobe Apps?
  • PDF Accessibility by WebAIM
  • Reading Order tool overview
  • Tagged content
  • Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro)
  • Check PDF accessibility.

• Alternative Text

  Alternative text (or alt text) is a brief description of an image, graphic, or other non-text content that is embedded into the HTML code of a webpage or document. Its primary purpose is to make digital content accessible to people with visual disabilities who use screen readers, which can read the alt text aloud to convey the image’s content and meaning. Alt text also provides benefits for users with slow internet connections or search engines, which use the text to understand the image’s context.
  • Image Accessibility Alternative Text Creator by ASU EdPlus
  • Images Tutorial by W3.org
  • Alternative Text by WebAIM

• Applications for Accessibility

  Free and Open-Source Applications for Accessibility

  This list features free and open-source software applications that can aid in your digital accessibility journey.

Captions

Captions are a text version of a video or audio’s spoken words and relevant non-speech sounds, displayed on a screen to help people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing understand the content in their original language, those with neurodiversity, or those whose first language is not English. Common types include closed captions (CC), which can be turned on or off by the viewer, and open captions, which are permanently embedded in the video. In addition to dialogue, captions can include speaker identification, important sound effects, and descriptions of music.

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  Clipchamp by Microsoft

  Accessibility tools for Clipchamp

  Microsoft Clipchamp is a user-friendly, in-browser, and desktop video editor that helps anyone create professional-looking videos with ease. Clipchamp utilizes its AI-powered feature within the video editor, which automatically transcribes spoken content in a video or audio track into real-time subtitles.

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  Mediasite

  Using automated captioning
  Add and edit captions using Caption Editor
  

  Mediasite captions are text transcripts of the spoken audio in a video presentation, created either automatically using automatic speech recognition (ASR) or by manually uploading pre-made caption files.

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  YouTube

  Add subtitles & captions.
  

  YouTube captions are a text version of a video’s dialogue and essential sound effects, designed to be turned on or off by the viewer. They serve to make videos accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as those who watch videos without sound, and improve the overall user experience. YouTube automatically generates many captions using AI, but creators can also manually add or edit them for accuracy.

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  Zoom

  Viewing captions in a meeting or webinar
  

  In Zoom, a “caption” refers to live text that appears on screen, showing a real-time transcription of the audio from a meeting or webinar. Captions can be generated automatically using Zoom’s live transcription service, provided manually by a designated person (a captioner), or delivered via a third-party service.

Color Contrast

Color contrast is the difference in brightness, or luminance, between two colors, such as those of text and its background. Colors that are directly opposite each other on the color wheel create the most significant contrast, while colors that are too similar in brightness can make text and details difficult or impossible to see.

• 	WebAIM Contrast Checker
  	WCAG Color contrast checker (Chrome extension)

Microsoft Tools

Microsoft’s accessibility tools are a suite of resources that enable the creation of files and materials that are usable by people with a wide range of abilities. The tools are designed to help developers test, identify, and fix accessibility issues throughout the development lifecycle.

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  Excel

  Accessibility tools for Excel
  Accessibility best practices with Excel spreadsheets
  Microsoft Excel Accessibility (WebAIM)
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  PowerPoint

  Accessibility tools for PowerPoint
  Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible.
  PowerPoint Accessibility (WebAIM)
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  Word

  Accessibility tools for Word
  Make your Word documents accessible.
  Microsoft Word Accessibility (WebAIM)

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