What is WAT-C ?

The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C] provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium is a collaboration of some of the world's leading accessibility practitioners, founded by Accessible Information Solutions (Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), Wrong HTML (Japan), and Juicy Studio (UK).

Our goals are to develop new tools, improve current tools and expand the range of browsers, operating systems and languages in which our tools are available.

WAT-C Focus on Internationalisation:

The issue of web accessibility is relevant to all and we want to provide tools for the development of accessible web content worldwide. If you are interested in contributing to the translation and localisation of our tools, please contact us.

WAT-C Current Projects:

• Web Accessibility Toolbar for Mozilla/Firefox
• Current Project Details

Recent Releases:

• Chinese (Traditional) Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 now available - 網頁親和力工具列 (1.3 mb installation file)
• Color Contrast Analyser - 色彩對比分析程式 Chinese (traditional) version now available : 色彩對比分析程式 (zip, 367 kb)
• The Contrast Analyser for MAC in (English, French, German, Italian and Swedish) is now available, thanks to Cedric Trevisan
• A French language version of the Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 Is now available.
  Thanks to Aurélien Levy for the translation. Barre d'outils Accessibilité du Web 2.0 beta (pour IE)
• The Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 beta is now available. Completely rebuilt! Available in English, French and Italian.
• The Contrast Analyser 2.0 is now available. The Contrast Analyser 2.0 implements the updated contrast algorithm and provides results based on Guideline 1.4 of the May 2007 working draft of WCAG 2.0.
  Versione italiana: Contrast Analyser - Versione 2.0
• The Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera [WAT for Opera] 1.1
  Read more and download the WAT for Opera 1.1
• Spanish: Descagar - La barra de herramientas de accesibilidad Web (759 KB, exe file) . Thanks to Alan Chuter and his colleagues from Technosite for the localisation.
• German: Lilo von Hanffstengel has collaborated with WAT-C to develop a German language version of the Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1. Download: Colour Contrast Analyser DE 1.1 [zip file, 319 KB]
• Barre AccessiWeb un logiciel d'aide a l'evaluation manuelle de l'accessibilite du Web de l'association BrailleNet The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium have collaborated with Braillenet to develop a [French language] tool supporting the manual testing of the AccessiWeb guidelines

Selected Tools Developed by WAT-C members:

• Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE - Free software for checking web site accessibility: document structure, colours, HTML, CSS, links, images ...
• HTML Tidy - Japanese localisation of Dave Ragget's open source utility for tidying up HTML
• Colour Contrast Analyser - online service for checking foreground & background colour combinations to help determine if they provide good colour visibility.
• Web Developer Extension - Japanese & Korean localisations of Chris Pederick's extension for Mozilla/Firefox.
• More Tools