Tools and Resources
Software
Site Unseen is a tool to help you understand how blind people use the web.
People who are visually impaired or blind browse the web very differently than sighted users. Site Unseen helps you appreciate how blind users interact with web pages by obscuring the page and providing a screen reader emulator to explore its content. Use this browser extension to foster empathy in yourself and your community for those with vision disabilities, build the case for accessible web design, and test for web accessibility issues.
Sound Pointer is a Chrome extension that enables you to use sound to track your mouse pointer in the browser. When Sound Pointer is active, it plays a tone and changes its pitch, volume, and panning as you move your mouse. This is a great tool to quickly find a lost mouse pointer.
Get Sound Pointer | Github repo
Listen to the time.
SongClock is a web-based musical clock that plays tones to represent the current time, turning hours and minutes into a continuously evolving, harmonic soundscape.
Inclusiville is an award-winning website that delivers an empathy-building game simulating a blind user’s experience when finding information about a local festival. This website was the winner of the 2021 axe-hackathon hosted by Deque Systems.
Publications
Up to 27% of your readers have a disability. Can they access your content?
Make sure people with disabilities can fully engage with your content and message using this free resource. The Accessible Writing Checklist includes over 20 proven best practices covering fonts, colors, headings, links, images, content, and more that you can use right now to make your writing accessible and inclusive to readers of all abilities.