{"id":730,"date":"2012-07-23T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:15:46","slug":"practical-web-accessibility-testing-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/practical-web-accessibility-testing-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Web Accessibility Testing Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Info About FireEyes Installation Added January 2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI bet my accessibility toolbelt is wider than yours!  I&#8217;m always collecting free accessibility tools.  Why?  Because I like to see what each one does and how it can help me be a better tester.  My current toolbelt includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/toolbar\">WAVE Toolbar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/60\">Web Developer (Firefox Extension) <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/headingsmap\/\">HeadingsMap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jimthatcher.com\/favelets\">JIm Thatcher&#8217;s Favelets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/accessibility-evaluation-toolb\/\">Jon Gunderson&#8217;s Accessibility Evaluator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/juicy-studio-accessibility-too\/\">Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a class by itself, is FireEyes.  A free testing tool that will blow your socks off (once you get it installed in a compatible environment). I&#8217;ll admit, the installation process is delicate.  FireEyes depends on having just the right versions of the following stack (updated Feb 22, 2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FireFox\n<\/li>\n<li>FireBug\n<\/li>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>FireEyes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to turn off automatic updates for FireFox and FireBug.   And you must Disable the FireFox Blocklist (until we release the java-free version of FireEyes. coming soon).<\/p>\n<p>Because this is such a moving target, we are centralizing the &#8220;how to&#8221; for FireEyes installation at <a href=\" http:\/\/www.deque.com\/products\/worldspace-fireeyes\/worldspace-fireeyes-faq \">FireEyes FAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the java-free version of FireEyes to be in our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Info About FireEyes Installation Added January 2013 I bet my accessibility toolbelt is wider than yours! I&#8217;m always collecting free accessibility tools. Why? Because I like to see what each one does and how it can help me be a better tester. My current toolbelt includes: WAVE Toolbar Web Developer (Firefox Extension) HeadingsMap JIm&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/practical-web-accessibility-testing-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practical Web Accessibility Testing Tools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}