Links
Legal acts
- Union of Equality: Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030 (Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions) (opens in a new tab)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations) (opens in a new tab)
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations) (opens in a new tab)
- Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (opens in a new tab)
- Directive (EU) 2017/1564 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2017 on certain permitted uses of certain works and other subject matter protected by copyright and related rights for the benefit of persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled (opens in a new tab)
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1563 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2017 on the cross-border exchange between the Union and third countries of accessible format copies of certain works and other subject matter protected by copyright and related rights for the benefit of persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled (opens in a new tab)
- Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies (opens in a new tab)
- Harmonised European Standard EN 301 549: Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services (CEN/CENELEC/ETSI). (opens in a new tab)
Audiovisual elements
- VLC Media Player (opens in a new tab)
- VLC Extension Time (opens in a new tab)
- Aegisub (opens in a new tab)
Authoring tools
- LibreOffice (opens in a new tab)
- World Wide Web Consortium list of PDF authoring tools (opens in a new tab)
Colour checking
- Adobe Color (opens in a new tab)
- Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator (opens in a new tab)
- Color Oracle (opens in a new tab)
- Colour Contrast Analyser (opens in a new tab)
- GIMP (opens in a new tab)
- WebAIM Contrast Checker (opens in a new tab)
Cross platform development
- Apache Cordova (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Xamarin.Forms (opens in a new tab)
- Xamarin.Forms Accessibilitys (opens in a new tab)
ePub
- BBEdit (opens in a new tab)
- Calibre (opens in a new tab)
- ePub Accessibility 1.0 (opens in a new tab)
- ePub 3.2 Specification (opens in a new tab)
- Sigil (opens in a new tab)
ePub testing
- Ace by DAISY (opens in a new tab)
- ePubCheck (opens in a new tab)
- Pagina ePub-Checker (opens in a new tab)
HTML coding
HTML testing
- W3C Markup Validator (opens in a new tab)
- WAVE (opens in a new tab)
- WAVE browser toolbar (opens in a new tab)
- Web Consortium list of available 'Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools' (opens in a new tab)
- Web Developer extension by Chris Pederick (opens in a new tab)
Inclusion
PDF testing
- Commonlook PDF Validator (opens in a new tab)
- PAVE (opens in a new tab)
- PDF Accessibility Checker (opens in a new tab)
- PdfaPilot (opens in a new tab)
- Tingtun Checker (opens in a new tab)
- World Wide Web Consortium list of accessibility evaluation tools (opens in a new tab)
Plain language
Screen readers
Tools for Android
- Android accessibility overview (opens in a new tab)
- Android Accessibility Suite (opens in a new tab)
- Android User Guides (opens in a new tab)
- Google BrailleBack (opens in a new tab)
- Google Live Transcribe (opens in a new tab)
- Google Voice Access (opens in a new tab)
- Google Sound Amplifier (opens in a new tab)
Tools for iOS
- Accessibility on iOS (opens in a new tab)
- WWDC videos accessibility (opens in a new tab)
- iPhone model list (opens in a new tab) / iPad model list (opens in a new tab)
- iPhone iOS user guide (opens in a new tab)
- iPad iOS user guide (opens in a new tab)
Tools for MacOS
Tools for Windows
Documents
- Accessible hyperlinks - Best practices (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Accessible publishing. What is it? - Handout (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Alt text - Checklist (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Easy to read - Guidelines (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Plain language - Guidelines (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Preparing MS Word manuscripts for any accessible format - Handout (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Social media - Checklist (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
- Word file - Checklist (PDF) (opens in a new tab)