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Testing for Accessibility

Go into your browser preferences to turn off images and look at your site that way

Try navigating around your pages with the keyboard only. The tab key will take you from link to link

Configure your browser preferences to reject site colors; change to a larger font

Use the tools at Bobby to check your site: http://cast.org/bobby/

View your site through a text browser such as Lynx: http://lynx.browser.org

Use a talking browser such as the IBM Home Page Reader

There are other evaluation tools at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/

  

Did you know?

that the Lynx browser is available for most computer platforms including Mac and PC?


that you can get a free 30 day trial of most assistive software?


You could also go to an online Lynx viewer



 

 

 


 
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