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
• Colour Contrast Analyser - Java based cross-platform version.
• Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE - Rebuild
• Current Project Details

Recent Releases:

• A French language version of the Luminosity Contrats Ratio Analyser Is now available.
  Thanks to Aurélien Levy for the translation. Outil d'analyse de la différence de luminosité version 1.1 (ZIP file, 318 KB)
• 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
• Swedish: Peter Krantz has collaborated with WAT-C to develop a Swedish language version of the Web Accessibility Toolbar, Download: Web Accessibility Toolbar SE 1.2 [exe file, 789 KB]
• Swedish: Peter Krantz has collaborated with WAT-C to develop a Swedish language version of the Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1. Download: Colour Contrast Analyser SE 1.1 [zip file, 319 KB]
• German: Web Accessibility Toolbar DE 1.2 Download (759 KB, exe file) . Thanks to Walter Kiessl and his colleagues from WEB for ALL for the localisation.
• Portuguese [Brazilian]: Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1 - Analisador de Contraste de Cores 1.1. Thanks to Mauricio Samy Silva for the localisation.
• New Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1 - Versione italiana now available. Many thanks to Roberto Castaldo for his work on the localisation
• New Colour Contrast Analyser 1.1 now available. Many thanks to Jun for all his hard work on this project
• French: Web Accessibility Toolbar FR 1.2, Information and Download - La barre d'outils Accessibilité du Web FR 1.2. Thanks to Sylvie Duchateau and Tanguy Loheac from Braillenet for the localisation.
• Portuguese [Brazilian]: Web Accessibility Toolbar PT-BR 1.2 Information and Download Barra de Ferramentas para acessibilidade à Web. Thanks to Mauricio Samy Silva for the localisation.

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