Quick Links:
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Government Acts
- Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Screen Readers
- Other Helpful Resources
Accessibility Guidelines
Government Acts
- Ontario Regulation 191/11 Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Standard on Web Accessibility
- US - Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Website Accessibility Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Australia - Disability Discrimination Act, 1992
- UK - Equality Act 2010
Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- AChecker
- WAVE
- Colour Contrast Checker: WebAIM
- Readability Test Tool
- W3C HTML Markup Validation Service
- Lynda.com: Creating Accessible PDF's using Adobe Acrobat DC
Screen Readers
- NVDA (NV Access) (Windows, free open source)
- Mac VoiceOver (Mac, built into the computer)
- Orca (GNOME) (Linux, free open source)
- iOS VoiceOver (Built into iOS devices)
- Talkback (Built into Android devices)
- ChromeVox (Google, requires the Chrome browser)