Tools and Utilities

The following tools and utilities include those that Guild members have found to be particularly useful or have been provided by GAWDS members themselves.

• AIS Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE - V1.2 now available
  Free software for checking web site accessibility, primarily assisting the manual checks that have to be undertaken. Runs with IE on Windows; available in many languages.
• MTBrowser - all in one testing tool
  
• QnECMS - the accessible Content Management System
  QnECMS (Quick and Easy Content Management System) is built with accessibility from the ground-up, making it the most standards compliant and accessible CMS on the market.
• Tradingeye v5 Shop and CMS - Accessible e-commerce solutions
  The new Tradingeye Shop v5 is one of the first accessible, web standard compliant shopping carts. It features a powerful online content management system which easily enables you to take full control of your shop.
• Colour Contrast Analyser
  The Colour Contrast Analyser has been updated to v2.2 to include the algorithm adopted by WCAG 2.0.
• Talklets
  Assitive web-based technology, that makes your sites more accessible to more people, in more places... FREE for GAWDS members sites (read on for further)
• CannyBill - Invoicing, billing & web hosting automation.
  CannyBill is a web based invoicing and billing solution for businesses and web designers. Easily create, send and manage invoices and accept payments online via credit card. You can also sell your products and services using order forms which your customers can signup to and even link to live API's such as Plesk, Geotrust, Enom, Basecamp and many more.
• Browsealoud - speech enabled website content
  Texthelp Systems Ltd have introduced special reduced rates on their Browsealoud product for GAWDS members. The reduced rates are available on request by contacting Elaine Emerson directly.
• CSS Accessibility Analyser by Juicy Studio
  
• Standards Compliance tools by Web Thing
  
• XHTML 1.1 WYSIWYG Editor
  XStandard is a standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor designed to be integrated into CMS. For the first time, non-technical business users can create clean and accessible XHTML.
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  Short list of web accessibility evaluation online tools.
• WDG HTML validator
  As well as offering you the opportunity to validate single web pages, the Web Design Group's online HTML validator has a number of other useful features.
• Multiple versions of IE on one PC
  This is a link to a tutorial that will make browser testing a little easier. It shows how to run different versions of Interent Explorer on one Windows System.