Accessibility Tools & Resources

Accessibility Guidelines

All Davidson websites are required to comply with federal accessibility requirements as defined by the (Level A &  Level AA) standards. The latest changes to  now follow the WCAG 2.0 standards.

Accessibility Checkers & Tools

There are a number of accessibility checkers, manual checks and screen readers that can be used to check a website's accessibility. Be advised that accessibility checkers typically will only catch 40-50% of issues requiring the use of a couple different tools as well as manual checks.

  •  - a free is available for Chrome and Firefox. (free)
  • ʳɫ¹ÙÍø“ each page is checked against more than 700 . (Paid software, 30-day demo available).
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  • Manual review of HTML code (View Source)
  • - manual review of site navigability using only keyboard controls
  • in demo mode (Windows)
  • (Nonvisual Desktop Access) (Windows)
  • (Mac)

Accessibility Checklists