Tools for Checking the Accessibility of Digital Tools and Materials

Free Accessibility Checker is a tool that analyses website compliance with various accessibility standards. It provides a comprehensive report detailing the main accessibility issues on the page.

Accessibility Checker allows free scanning of website accessibility and compliance with WCAG 2.1.

AEL is a free tool for checking website accessibility.

ReciteMe enables free website accessibility checking. It performs 396 separate compliance scans in accordance with WCAG 2.1 and analyses issues that need to be resolved. Users can make individual or multiple adjustments, including customising font size, adjusting colour contrast to improve readability, using a screen masking tool to isolate parts of the page for easier focus, downloading content as audio files as an alternative to reading, converting page content into over 100 different on-screen languages, reading the page aloud in 65 different languages, adjusting PDF documents and having them read aloud or translated.

AudioEye offers free website accessibility checking, identifies and resolves accessibility problems, integrates solutions, and is transparent.

BlueAtlasMarketing enables website accessibility checking according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), provides advice on improving accessibility and search engine optimisation, and includes a checklist of the 10+ most important items to check during the development of a new or existing website, from descriptive alternative text to the selection of accessible fonts.

Free Website Accessibility Checker is a free tool for checking website accessibility.

WCAG Color Control Checker allows checking the accessibility of text and background colours. After selecting the planned colour combinations, these tools provide feedback on the accessibility of the selected combination.

Examples of numerous tools for checking website and digital content accessibility can be found on the W3 page.

Microsoft 365 contains tools for creating accessible content in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF.

Content accessibility checking is performed using the Accessibility Checker. For example, the Accessibility Checker in MS Word automatically identifies images without alternative text and offers users the option to add descriptions, warns of inadequate use of heading styles and recommends corrections, warns of insufficient contrast between text and background, and identifies complex tables that might be illegible for screen readers (Brebrić, 2024).

Assistiv Labs enables remote testing of websites and documents with assistive technology, such as NVDA and JAWS, and Windows High Contrast mode, to verify the accessibility of digital content for the intended users.

PAC is a tool for checking the accessibility of PDF documents.

Instructions for creating and checking the accessibility of MS Word and PDF documents are available on the Srce website.