Some Useful Links

Modified Friday, 21-Nov-2008 11:00:32 EST

These are some of the links from the course plus others found during searches.

LVS RELATED

LVS

LVS Free Host

LVS Free Host Tutorial

Week One Statements Text

LVS Winzip and Other Tutorials

LVS Free Tutorials Paths & Directories

LVS Filemaster

XHTML Cheatsheet

A reminder that your personal file will be found at http://www.lvshost.com/users/username/experiment1.html

General XHTML/CSS

Validation Information and Links from stylehack.com

XHTML Basics and Cheatsheet

New York Public Library Style Guide

Finding the Mystery Bug in Your CSS

ALA on Backward Compatibility Issues and Standards

Doctype explained

Validators

W3C(X)HTML Mark-up Valdiator

Validate CSS

WC3 Link Checker

Web Site Optimization

WAI table linearizor

Web Site Optimization

See if your page outline is logical with this semantic extractor tool

W3C CSS Validator FAQ’s

Meanings of W3C Validator Error Codes

What on earth do they mean by foo?

Toolbars and Lorem Ipsum

Download the ie Accessibility Toolbar

For the Mozilla Firefox Toolbar

The Opera Toolbar

Generate Lorem Ipsum Text for filler until your text is ready

WAI Guidelines and Gection 508 Information

York University information

Web content accessibility guidlines

Section 508 Good Accessibility Standards

Table Linearizer Check - TABLIN

Color Contrast This site has information about designing for people with low vision or color problems

WAVE 3.0 Web Accessibility Tool (WebAIM)

WAVE displays your web page graphically with icons that indicate errors or possible problems. You can even continue to browse within your site, all while using WAVE. To use it online, enter the URL of your page or upload your page to the WAVE site. You can also install a convenient browser toolbar or "bookmarklet" to make accessibility checking with WAVE as simple as clicking a button in your browser window while you are testing your site.
WEBXACT (Watchfire Corporation)

This free version of the Watchfire Corporation's web accessibility checker allows you to test one page at a time against either W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) or US Government web accessibility standards.
A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) (University of Toronto)

A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a downloadable software tool for Windows 98/98SE/2000/Me/XP. It first evaluates the Web page to identify barriers to accessibility, and then provides assistance in making the necessary repairs. You can check one page or focus on a particular element in a page. A-Prompt is available in either English or French, and is well-documented with screen shots and a Quick Start Tutorial on the web site.
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker (University of Toronto)

This online Web Accessibility Checker from the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre allows you to test your page against a specific guideline/priority level, and provides a detailed report listing potential problems. For each item identified, it also summarizes the process used to test your page.

Simulation Tools

VisCheck and Daltonize: Colour Blindness Simulation and Correction (Delorie.com)

Roughly 1 in 20 people have some sort of colour vision deficiency, and sometimes can't see things that "colour normal" people can see. VisCheck lets you check your work for color blind visibility. Use it online by uploading your image files or web page, or download Photoshop plug-ins to run on your own Macintosh or Windows PC. The "Daltonize" tool can be used to correct images for colour-blind viewers.
Lynx Viewer Text-Only Simulator (Delorie.com)

Text is the media that is most "translatable" to a variety of assistive devices, so checking if your page would be usable in text-only mode is an excellent test for basic accessibility. This service allows you to approximate what your pages will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. This is a good way to spot problems with missing or poor-quality ALT text.
Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer (Delorie.com)

Want to see if your page would be usable without tables, scripts or style sheets? Visit this site, enter the URL of your page, and check only those features that you want the browser to be able to see. This site is meant for checking if your pages would be usable with older web browsers, but it can also be used to simulate common accessibility issues. For example, turn off images to see your ALT text in place. Turn off tables to see what order text would appear in without the table, a good indicator of how usable the page might be to someone using a screen reader. Or, turn off style sheets to see if someone who uses their own style sheet to compensate for low vision will still be able to use your page.

colour information - generators - hex codes

Link to show background colours- Change by checking radio box

Hex codes and color names

About coms browser safe colours Hex codes

Colour Finder

Firefox color finder add on ColorZilla

Learn about Web Safe Colors from Lynda

ColorMatch

For choosing your site colours. This site is revamping and will have more features available shortly
Play with Color Schemes and read about color vision problems

Color Schemer online generator

Also available for d/l

Blink Warnings and Web Accessibility

Motion and Animation

Web Accessibiliby

Accessibility Tips

fonts

Windows Font Survey

Mac Font Survey

Serif Fonts

Sans Serif Fonts

Fantasy Fonts D/L fonts

Acid Fonts

Special Characters

Special Characters - Cool Nerds

Evolt - list of “special characters”

WC3 - character entity references

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