he web accessibility Toolbar has been designed to help manual examination of web pages for different aspects of accessibility.

The web accessibility Toolbar is provided by the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) team at Vision Australia.

Language versions: English, Danish, Deutsch, Korean, Español, Français, Italiano, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Here are some key features of "Web accessibility Toolbar":

· identify components of a web page
· facilitate the use of 3rd party online applications
· simulate user experiences
· provide links to references and additional resources.

Expression web Designer is a professional design tool to help you create modern standards-based web sites.

Expression web Designer gives you all the tools youll need to produce high-quality, standards-based web sites the way you want them. Take advantage of the best of dynamic web site design, enabling you to easily develop, design and maintain exceptional standards-based webpages.

Expression web Designer helps you create and work with:
· Standards-based web sites
· Sophisticated CSS-based layouts
· Extensive CSS formatting and management
· Rich data presentation
· Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology

Here are some key features of "Microsoft Expression web Designer":

· XHTML compliance
Design sites according to today’s exacting standards with minimum effort by taking advantage of web Designer’s deep support for XHTML.

· Full schema support
Choose whatever schema you want to adopt, web Designer builds appropriate code, and the compatibility checker highlights non-conformant custom code.

· Real-time standards validation
Receive instant feedback of standards violations so instant corrections can be made during the design process, whether in design or code view. Prevents time-consuming corrections at a later stage in the design.

· Accessibility checking
Use the built-in accessibility checker to make sure that web sites can fully conform to accessibility standards for reading by screen readers, with support for WCAG and Section 508 standards.

· Professional design surface
Design high-quality web sites and applications with a state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface that combines power with ease of use, allowing direct manipulation of margins and padding throughout the document.

· High-quality CSS rendering engine
Produce a faithful representation of the look of the final browser-rendered page with a powerful CSS rendering engine which allows design decisions to be made with confidence

· Standard or Quirks rendering
Render pages in Standard or Quirks mode depending on the doctype setting of the page for maximum browser compatibility.

· Site and page templates
Improve initial design productivity by starting with professionally designed templates that are fully XHTML and CSS compliant

· Tag property grid
Retrieve and set all valid properties for a selected tag. Access all the power of the HTML language through one palette.

· Intelligent CSS style creation
Focus on the design process and let Expression web Designer take care of CSS style creation, avoiding repetitive style creation throughout your site.

· Drag-and-drop style management
Try out designs with local in-page CSS styles and then easily migrate styles to a central repository using drag and drop.

· Intelligent style renaming
Rename styles instantly without find and replace with locally stored site metadata recording all style usage.

· CSS reporting
View detailed reports on CSS style usage across sites in the Results pane to effectively manage the deployment of consistently styled pages.

· CSS design time preferences
Set preferences for exactly how CSS code is generated throughout an application to have complete control over Expression web Designer code generation.

· Customized views of XML data
Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools to quickly achieve visualizations that conform to the CSS site design.

· XSL Transform support (XSLT)
Present data using XSLT, with support for editing views on live XML data to give designers full flexibility to represent XML data the way they choose.

· Powerful data manipulation
Fine-tune the raw data presented on the page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting.

· RSS Feeds
Retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled to match the look and feel of the site.

· Create and edit ASP.NET pages
Create, edit, and deploy web pages with deep support for the newly released ASP.NET 2.0 standard. Capture the power of ASP.NET with the ease of use of drag-and-drop controls.

· Master Pages
Maintain the correct look of your site with the use of server-rendered ASP.NET Master Pages to speed up the design process and allow easy site-wide changes. Nested Master Pages allow complex designs to be maintained.

· ASP.NET controls
Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 but rendered within the design surface of web Designer.

· ASP.NET Development Server
Preview ASP.NET pages locally, without the need for a full web server, with the ASP.NET Development Server, allowing design decisions to be made with full reference to the page’s data.

· No code data binding
Use a drag-and-drop interface that accesses the power of ASP.NET with no coding requirement to visually bind data sources to controls on the design surface.

SortSite Professional is an easy to use desktop utility that follows all links on a web site and produces a single unified report of all site quality issues.

Many companies use an assortment of on-line tools to check web sites for quality issues, but these suffer from three major problems:

· These tools cant reach the site if its still in development or behind a firewall
· They only check single pages
· Combining the results into a single report is difficult

Here are some key features of "SortSite Professional":

· W3C standards Validation
· accessibility Checking
· Error Checking
· Legal Compliance
· Compatibility
· Usability
· Search Engine Optimization
· Dashboard


Limitations:

· One-click site checking
· 30-day time-limited demo
· Detects the same issues as full version, but some issue descriptions are replaced by "The full version shows this error in detail"

Plone is a user-friendly powerful content management system - ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities

Here are some key features of "Plone":

· Plone is very flexible and powerful. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
· Plone is easy to use. The Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.
· Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a click-and-run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.
· Plone is international. The Plone interface has been translated into over 40 languages, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
· Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3Cs AA rating for accessibility, in addition to using best-practice web standards like XHTML and CSS.
· Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license Linux uses. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
· Plone is supported. There are close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and a multitude of companies specializing in Plone development and support.
· Plone is extensible. There are many add-on products for Plone that add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.

The Mozilla/Firefox accessibility Extension is a useful utility that makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. Developers can use the toolbar to check their structural markup to make sure it matches the page content.

Firefox accessibility Extension description
Firefox accessibility Extension is an extension that makes navigating the web easier for people with disabilities The Mozilla/Firefox accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with a disability to view and navigate web content by adding a special toolbar.

Developers can use the toolbar to check their structural markup to make sure it matches the page content.

Requirements:

· Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.

Cute Editor for ASP.NET is the most powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) browser-based Online HTML Editor for ASP.NET.

It enables ASP.NET web developers to replace the Textarea in your existing content management system with a powerful, but easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editing component.

It empowers business users to make content updates easily and safely themselves while maintaining control over site design and content, all at an affordable price.

A cross-browser, cross-platform WYSIWYG online HTML editor.

Compatible with the most important browsers available in the market: IE 5.5+, Firefox 1.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Netscape 7+ and Safari (1.3+). This includes Macintosh and Linux.

Compliant with the web standards, no deprecated tags such as anymore

Does your online html editor still use deprecated tags such as ? Cute Editor will help you build sites that adhere to the latest HTML standards, generates clean HTML/XHTML code with no deprecated tags.


Insert clean HTML from Microsoft Word.

Support accessibility according to W3C WAI and section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Cute Editor optional accessibility settings ensure your site complies with Section 508, so people with disabilities can have full access to your content.

Output HTML or well-formed XHTML to your choice (Demo)

Cute Editor supports output well-formed XHTML. Your choice of XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 output.


Unlimited levels of the undo/redo feature


Multi-culture support, Easy localization through XML (Demo)

All labels, buttons, tooltips and messages are located in external XML files, so that the language of the editor can be switched with a single property. You can also create a new language in a matter of minutes.

Support complete page editing (from to ) (Demo)

XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for Windows and browser-based content management systems (IE / Firefox). It generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1 markup that meets the most stringent accessibility requirements, uses only CSS for formatting and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Use XStandard to manage rich content in any language (including right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic).

The Lite version of XStandard is free for commercial use. The Pro version has advanced web Services that power a spell checker, file drag & drop, referencing of files in remote libraries, communicating with third party systems and importing third-party content.

Individual web developers, web consulting firms, application service providers, government and Fortune 500 clients incorporate XStandard into their content management solutions.