thoughts on technology and culture, politics, and information design
Sunday, October 03, 2004
web accessibility toolbar
A colleague suggested taking a look at a web accessibility toolbar for internet explorer that has turned out to be really fantastic. It will dynamically show where structural markup does (or does not) occur. It has tools to reveal missing alt tags or label tags, examine color issues, disabled/enable particular technologies, and much more. Some of my favorite uses for it include turning off javascript and css support to make sure pages still render properly without these technologies. Disabling javascript and/or css can be very difficult depending upon what browser one uses. This open source tool, released under the creative commons license, was developed by a group called National Information and Library Service out of Australia. I wish a powerful tool like this was available for Safari so I could use it on my mac. This tool rates as a must for anyone who does web accessibility assessments or wants to dissect the structural elements within a page for any reason. Check it out.