View Full Version : Free Usability Related Tool I Found out about @ asp.net


JasonYAP
07-20-2005, 07:43 PM
I do development on DotNetNuke and someone posted this on the asp.net forums. So since I am a newbie & am going to be asking a lot of questions, I figured I would share something too.

There are a lot of webpage analyzing tools but I hadn't seen anyone refer to this one and it is quite thorough and has a section on 'accessibility'. I've tried a few and was impressed.

It finds things such as browser compatibility, page efficiency, page accessibility, readability, etc...

So, it may find that you are using javascript that is specific to a mouse (you can't use keyboard), or you have a background color similar to a foreground color, or places where you are not using relative position for tables, etc....

http://webxact.watchfire.com/

Anyways, I'd be curious to what ppl think. I think this tool is awesome & I made several updates to my website tonight from it (including some obscure broken image links I had missed).

Jason

Paz
07-28-2005, 10:09 AM
Hi,

I had a look and it's not bad actually!

I would definitely recommend that everyone run their homepage through it.....

There were a few things in there that suprised me!

Cheers,
Paz.

Gnome_101
08-03-2005, 12:14 PM
This is a good tool! Some of the things they complain about are optionol for SEO terms, like the alt tags...

But overall good tool!