Handy Dandy Resources For Web Designers

From Accessify.com

This one is really handy for CSS Colors - Click Here

Ripcord CSS Designer

A CSS-generating widget that can hekp save time creating CSS page layouts.

Accessible Information Solutions - Accessibility Toolbar

A toolbar for IE that contains a range of tools that might be used to help provide a more accessible web site.

XStandard WYSIWYG Editor

A WYSIWYG editor to generate XHTML 1.1 markup that supports tables, lists, links, floats, and custom tags; CSS used for formatting, referenced through drop-down menus

Alpha Squared's Visual Impairment Simulator

Alpha Squared Solutions provide a visualisation tool that enables sighted users to experience how visually impaired people may experience the internet.

User Style Sheet Wizard

An easy-to-use tool that quickly builds a style sheet that can be employed as a user style sheet (and here is how to use one)

A-prompt

An excellent - and free - tool that analyzes your web pages and suggests how to fix them. Essential for any web developer who needs to create accessible web page templates.

CommonLook for Adobe Acrobat

CommonLook for Adobe Acrobat is a tool that can make PDF documents accessible and compy with Section 508 guidelines.

BTexact Safe Web Colours

Don't be colour blind to other people's afflictions - check out these palettes and find out how others view the world.

Hermish

Hermish is "an easy-to-use accessibility tool. It's free and it will even check your web pages for browser compatibility."

Lynx Viewer

Installing the Lynx browser can be tricky. This tool allows you to pass it a URL and will render the page just as Lynx would - with no images (alt attributes displayed instead), no scripts and no table layouts.

Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla

Like the title says ...

Mod_accessibility

Mod_accessibility is a fully automatic aid to making websites more accessible. It serves to improve Websites and Intranets for everyone - as long as you are running Apache.

CSS Webcolor

Online web-utility that generates CSS code to define color attributes for web pages.

VisCheck colour blindness simulator

Pass this site a valid URL (or an image of your web page) and VisCheck will show you how it looks to people with a range of colour blindnesses. Have your links disappeared or lost contrast? Find out here.

WAI table linearizer

Screen readers can have difficulties with table-based layouts, and some browsers cannot display them. So, you need to be sure that your beautifully crafted table layout degrades gracefully when linearized.

Browser-Safe Color Tester

Test browser-safe color combinations for visibility by users with eight varieties of color deficiency.

Tantek Favelets

The originator of the term favelets! Tantek Celik has a number of favelets that you may find useful.

Web Design References: Tools

Tool section of the Web Design Reference Site. Links to Accessibility Tools, Color Tools, CSS Tools, HTML Validators, Lints & Viewers, Information Architecture Tools, Link Checkers, Miscellaneous Tools, Usability Tools, XML Tools.