Web Accessibility Toolbar [for Opera] 1.1 - Function Descriptions
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Function | Description |
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Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) | Link to the WAT-C site |
WAT-C members | Links to WAT-C member's sites |
Accessibility Toolbar - Documentation | Information about Toolbar functionality |
Accessibility Toolbar and WCAG 1.0 | Information about which toolbar functions (if any) are useful in assessing conformance to the WCAG 1.0 checkpoints. |
Accessibility Toolbar - About | Information about The toolbar Version and Toolbar Development. |
Feedback | Link to the web accessibility toolbar blog |
version, language and release date | Information about the toolbar |
Function | Description |
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W3C HTML Validator
| Checks the HTML code of the current page(s) using the W3C HTML Validator (Opera function) |
W3C CSS Validator
| Checks the CSS code of the current page using the W3C CSS Validator |
W3C HTML Tidy
| Checks the HTML code of the current page and offers the option to view/download a repaired "tidied" version of the page using HTML Tidy |
W3C Link Checker
| Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document(s). Useful to find broken links, etc. using the W3C Link checker |
WDG HTML Validator
| Checks the HTML code of current page(s) using the WDG HTML Validator |
WDG Link Valet
| Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document(s). Useful to find broken links, etc. using WDG Link Valet |
P3P Validator | Checks for the presence and validity of P3P format privacy information |
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640X480 | Resizes the current browser window to a width of 640 pixels and a height of 480 pixels. |
800X600 | Resizes the current browser window to a width of 800 pixels and a height of 600 pixels. |
1024X768 | Resizes the current browser window to a width of 1024 pixels and a height of 768 pixels. |
1280X1024 | Resizes the current browser window to a width of 1280 pixels and a height of 1024 pixels. |
Custom Sizes |
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Function | Description |
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Disable CSS | Disables styles, effect persists until CSS is re-enabled. (Opera function) |
Show Style Sheet(s) | Displays the content of style sheets link to the current page (in a new window) Developed from a script by Lioren |
Show Applied Styles | Displays the styles (in a new window) associated with the content currently located under the mouse cursor. Script from Jesse Ruderman |
Test Styles | Modify and apply styles to the current page on the fly (in a new window) |
Opera CSS Editor | View, modify disable and export style sheets(in a new window) |
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Image List | Displays (in a new window) a list of images along with the corresponding img element. Developed from a script by Lioren |
Toggle Image/alt | Replaces all img elements on the current page with the content of their alt attributes within quotation marks. If an img element does not have an alt attribute the image is replaced with the text‘NoAlt!’ |
Show Images | Shows an img element next to each image (along with the images' alt attribute, if the img does not have an alt attribute the text 'NoAlt!' is displayed) and puts a red border aroundeach image. |
Show Image Maps | Checks for the presence of client-side and server-side image maps. if none are found it is indicated by an alert message. If image maps are found, they are displayed in a new window along withthe associated area elements |
GIF Flicker Test | Online service that checks any GIF images found on the current page. if a GIF is found to contain multiple frames the "flicker rate" is measured to determine if is in a range that mayeffect users with Photosensitive Epilepsy. Developed by Renzo Guist and translated into English by Roberto Castaldo |
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GrayBit Grayscale Tool | GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceivedcontrast. GrayBit created by Jonathan Fenocchi and Mike Cherim. |
Juicy Studio Colour Contrast Analyser | 3 test options
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Vischeck Colour Blindness Simulator (Deuteranope: common red/green) | Submits the URL of the current page to the Vischeck Colour Blindeness Simulator the URL is processed (may take a little while), a page will openwith a link to the simulation (in a new window). |
Function | Description |
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Headings | Shows all heading elements on the current page |
Heading Structure | Displays the Document title, and Headings (h1 - h6 including content) in a new window. Based on feature from The Wave 3.5 |
List Items | Shows ordered, unordered and definition list elements on the current page |
Fieldset / Labels | Shows Fieldset, legend and label elements on the current page. Show the for attribute of the label element if present, displays the text 'NoFor!' if not present. Displays the id[id=""] attribute of form controls, if present. |
Acronyms / Abbreviations | Shows Acronym and Abbreviation elements, and their title attributes, on the current page |
Blockquote & Q | Shows Blockquote and Q elements on the current page |
JavaScript / New Window Links |
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Event Handlers | Displays a warning ![]()
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Access keys | Displays accesskey attributes found on the current page |
Tabindex | Displays tabindex attributes found on the current page |
Show Tab Order | Numbers and adds a border to each active element, showing the order in which these elements are accessed via the keyboard 'Tab' key. Note: Tabindex is taken into account, if set. iframes, image maps and embedded objects (example: flash files) are counted as 1 increment in the tab order. |
Show Table Headers | Shows Table, th elements on the current page, th elements are given black backgrounds and text content is styled yellow and bold. |
Simple Data Table | Shows Table, th td & caption elements on the current page along with recommended attributes for marking up simple data tables(summary, scope). A warning is given if summary ["Nosummary!"] or scope ["No scope!"] attributes are not present on the appropriate elements. |
Complex Data Table | Shows Table, th td & caption elements on the current page along with recommended attributes for marking up Complex data tables(summary, scope,id & headers). A warning is given if summary["No summary!"], scope ["No scope!"], id ["No id!"], headers ["No headers!"] attributes are not present on the appropriate elements. |
Table Borders | Shows borders of all tables / table cells on the current page |
Table Cell Order | Shows the tab order (numbers) and borders of table cells on the the current page |
Linearise (Remove Tables) | Removes all table, td tr,th div elements for the current page |
Frame Borders | Shows borders of all frame elements on the current page |
Frame Name / Title | Displays (in a new window) a list of framed pages along with their frame elements name and title attribute content |
Show Div's | Shows the tab order (numbers) and borders of Div elements on the current page. |
Show Other Elements | Shows an JavaScript prompt box where the name of an element can be entered, then shows another prompt where a colour can be entered (default is red), then puts borders around instances of thenominated element found on the current page. Developed from a script on Centricle |
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Juicy Studio Tools |
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The Wave | Submits the URL of the current page to the Wave accessibility checking tool (2 options:current or new window) |
AccMonitor | Submits the URL of the current page to the AccMonitor accessibility checking tool (2 options: current or new window) |
Webxact / Bobby | Note: Bobby has now been superseded by Webxact Submits the URL of the current page to the Webxact tool for checking quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. 4 options:
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Lynx Viewer | Submits the URL of the current page to the Lynx Viewer text browser simulator |
Test de Accesibilidad Web (TAW) | Submits the URL of the current page to the TAW accessibility checking tool (2 options: current or new window) |
Function | Description |
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Page Information | Displays (in a new window) information (Including: title, file size, creation date, number of images,links,forms,scripts) about the page you are currently viewing. Developed from a script on Oregon State University web site |
Metadata Information | Displays (in a new window) a list of the title, link and meta elements, and their content, found on the current page. |
Link element navigation | Displays LINK elements and allows navigation via these elements if they are present (Opera function). For information about use of the link element refer to: |
Show DOCTYPE | Displays (in an alert) the DOCTYPE of the current HTML document. Refer to: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! |
Show Lang Attributes | Displays on the current page any lang attributes found along with their associated elements. with acknowledgement to: Bartimeus Accessibility Foundation Refer To: |
Show Titles | Displays on the current page any title attributes found. |
Page Speed Report | Submits the URL of the current page to the Online Web Page Analyser (in a new window) provided by Websiteoptimazation.com |
List Frames | Displays (in a new window) a list of the framed pages URL's with frame element names, of the page you are currently viewing. |
List Links | Displays (in a new window) a list of the link urls,content and title attribute(if present) found on the current page. |
List Downloadable Files | Displays (in a new window) a list of the links to Downloadable Files (Examples: PDF, MP3, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, ZIP) found on the currentpage. Developed from a script by Sofia Celic |
Identify Multimedia Files | Displays (in a new window) the code of any object/embed elements found. it also lists links to Multimedia files (Examples: mp3, mov, swf, ram etc) found on the current page. Developed by Sofia Celic |
Identify Scripts & Applets | Displays (in a new window) any applets found and the associated code. It also lists embedded and external scripts found and in most cases allows the viewing and downloading of external scriptslinked from current page. Developed by Sofia Celic with aknowledgement to Lioren |
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View Source | Shows the source code of the current page (Opera function) |
Opera Generated Source | Displays the DOM tree of the page as HTML. [new window] generated source from Opera Developer Tools |
View Partial Source | Displays the DOM tree of the selected content as HTML. Click an element to see the source. [new window] press escape to exit function. |
Deprecated HTML |
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Dom Inspectors |
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Reset | Re-enables all functions within the Opera menu and reloads the page form the cache (Opera function) |
Enable Images | Turns images on/off (Opera function) |
Enable GIF Animation | Turns GIF image animation on/off (Opera function) |
Enable JavaScript | Turns Javascript on/off (Opera function) |
Enable CSS | Turns CSS on/off (Opera function) |
Show preferences | Opens the preferences dialog (Opera function) |
Styles | Turn user style sheets on/off or switch site supplied alternate style sheets (Opera function) |
Open in Firefox | Opens the current page in Firefox (if installed) |
Open in IE | Opens the current page in Internet Explorer (if installed) |
Refs [alt + 9] 
The References section contains links to relevant information and resources found on the web.
back to topFunction | Description |
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Magnify | Zoom in and out (20% to 1000%) on the page content (Opera function) |
Menu | Key Combination |
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Documentation | alt + 0 |
Validate | alt + 1 |
Resize | alt + 2 |
CSS | alt + 3 |
Images | alt + 4 |
Colour | alt + 5 |
Structure | alt + 6 |
Tools | alt + 7 |
Doc Info | alt + 8 |
Source | alt + U |
Opera Options | alt + O |
Refs | alt + 9 |
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