Re: WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Tools

Added to this topic I've also found the tool aggiorno of great help.
Aggiorno works both as a standalone tool or as a plug in to Microsoft Visual
Studio.

Among what they do is (copied from their website):


   - *Smart Search and Replace:* This feature lets you run searches and do
   global replacements on HTML code patterns within the page or across multiple
   pages in a site or folder. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/smart-search-replace.aspx>
   - *Add Alternate Text to Image:* This feature guides you through a list
   of images without alternative text and gives you the chance to enter the
   right text describing the image. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-add-alt-text-image.aspx>
   - *Extract and Merge Inline Style:* This Aggiorno feature will help you
   pull your style together from slob to suave. It goes through your code on
   each page’s inline style declarations and consolidates it into a single
   style section. Repeated declarations are merged, which also helps to
   compress and clarify your CSS code. Read more. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-extract-merge-inline-style.aspx>
   - *Convert Text to XHTML List:* Converts a selection of text into an
   unordered list (<ul>...</ul>), containing a list of items (<li>...</li>), by
   automatically recognizing line breaks. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-convert-text-list.aspx>
   - *Convert Text to XHTML Paragraph:* Converts a selection of text into
   paragraphs by detecting where paragraphs start, end, and what indentation
   and line height should be used on any given selection of markup. Read
   more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-convert-text-paragraphs.aspx>
   - *Fix Deprecated Elements:* Scour your code to find deprecated elements
   and then replace them with an up-to-date tag while retaining the semantics
   and visual appearance. When the transformation is finished, your Web pages
   are XHTML transitional compliant. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-fix-deprecated-xhtml-elements.aspx>
   - *Fix XHTML Structural Errors:* Find and fix improper tag nesting, end
   tags in the wrong order, malformed markup, tag soup, and unclosed tags. Read
   more. <http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-fix-tag-structure.aspx>
   - *Assign Tab Index:* Review all the elements of the page that support
   tabbed navigation in list format. Then you enter the appropriate order and
   you’re done. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-assign-tabindex.aspx>
   - *Fix Missing Attributes:* Find every SCRIPT element without TYPE
   attribute or every TEXTAREA element without COLS, ROWS attributes. This
   feature guides you through a list of those elements without the required
   attributes and gives you the chance to enter the right value for such
   attributes. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-fix-missing-attributes.aspx>
   - *Create IE8 Web Slice:* Assistant to surround specific portions of your
   content with the necessary Web slice tags. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-ie8-create-web-slice.aspx>
   - *Insert/Remove the Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Tag:* Find the
   head section of the selected document, folder or files and add a
   compatibility Meta tag based on the option you choose. Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-ie8-compatibility-tagging.aspx>
   - *Replace Characters with Entities:* Converts ASCll characters  to HTML,
   translating plain ASCll special characters (quotes for instance) into
   "smart" typographic HTML entities Read
more.<http://www.aggiorno.com/what-is-aggiorno-fix-xhtml-sintax.aspx#entities>

I have found it really handy in not only validating my code to XHTML
transitional, but also to quickly add alternate text to images, replacing
characters and got to say their Smart and Research feature has saved be me
in several occasions.

Worth to take a look.

http://www.aggiorno.com/aggiorno-ide.aspx

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