Tools for academics

Academics who have developed content-based websites can use 'checking tools' to validate, verify or evaluate that their HTML content meets required accessibility standards. NB. These tools can only verify - NOT make - your content.

Bobby and Wave are two suggested checking tools.

Any web pages that are linked from within Blackboard should be tested for conformance . Not all linked pages will achieve even a minimum level of Conformance (Level A). In such cases, an alternative link should be provided, if possible, or an alternative source of the same or similar information.

A more complete list of checking tools and their application can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

This web site aims to comply with W3C standards, including XHTML 1.0 , CSS 2 , and conforms to W3C 's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505 , level Double-A.