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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/index.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/index.css?ver=3.2" type="text/css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"> </head> <body> <header> <nav id="home"> <ul> <li><a href="/extension">Browser Extensions</a></li> <li><a href="/standalone">Stand-alone API/Testing Engine</a></li> <li><a href="/api">Subscription API</a></li> <li><a href="/aim">AIM Report</a></li> <li><a href="/help">Help</a></li> </ul> <a href="/"><img src="/img/wavelogo.svg" alt="WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool" height="120"></a> </nav> <div id="main_form" class="controls"> <form id="waveform" novalidate> <label for="input_url">Web page address:</label><br><input id="input_url" type="url" class="control url"><input class="control" type="submit" id="button_wave" value="WAVE"> </form> </div> </header> <main> <h1>WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools</h1> <p>WAVE<sup>®</sup> is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.</p> <div id="products"> <div class="productcard"> <h2>WAVE Browser Extensions</h2> <p>You can use the online WAVE tool by entering a web page address (URL) in the field above. <a href="/extension">WAVE Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser extensions</a> are available for testing accessibility directly within your web browser - handy for checking password protected, locally stored, or highly dynamic pages.</p> </div> <div class="productcard"> <h2>WAVE API and Testing Engine</h2> <p>The <a href="/api">WAVE subscription API</a> and <a href="/standalone">Stand-alone WAVE API and Testing Engine</a> are powerful tools for easily collecting accessibility test data on many pages. The stand-alone API and Testing Engine can be integrated into your infrastructure for testing intranet, non-public, and secure pages, including in continuous integration processes.</p> </div> <div class="productcard"> <h2>Accessibility IMpact (AIM) Report</h2> <p>Your <a href="/aim">Accessibility IMpact (AIM) assessment report</a> provides detailed WAVE test data, your site's AIM score (a measure of end user impact compared to web pages generally and as determined by human testers), and expert manual test results to give you insights into the accessibility of your web site for users with disabilities.</p> </div> </div> <iframe title="Intro to WAVE Video" style="margin:auto;display:block;" width="640" height="385" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ITUDiTgAZY0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div id="callout"> <h2>Need more than one page at a time?</h2> <p>Our friends at <a href="https://pope.tech/wave"><img src="/img/web/popetech.svg" alt="Pope Tech"></a> provide an enterprise-level web accessibility evaluation system based on WAVE that gives site-wide monitoring and reporting over time.</p> <p>Learn more at <a href="https://pope.tech/wave">pope.tech</a>.</p> </div> </main> <footer> <div class="footerblock"><a href="https://usu.edu/"><img src="/img/web/usu-logo.svg" alt="Utah State University" style="width:70%";></a></div> <div class="footerblock middle"><a href="https://webaim.org/"><img src="/img/web/WebAIM-logo.svg" alt="WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind"></a><br>Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice<br> Utah State University<br> 6807 Old Main Hill<br> Logan, UT 84322-6807<br> 435.797.7024</div> <div class="footerblock" id="footerlinks"> <ul> <li id="contact"><a href="/feedback">Contact Us</a></li> <li id="sitewide"><a href="/sitewide">Site-wide WAVE Tools</a></li> <li id="about"><a href="/about">About</a></li> <li id="terms"><a href="/terms">Terms of Use</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="copyright"> WAVE is © and ® 2024 </div> </footer> </body> </html>