I will speak to the folks who helped develop this and see what can be done to get a non explanation of the things Cynthia Says comes back with.
Sincerely, Mike Burks [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claude Almansi Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:49 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DDN] Bobby reporting improved Hi JW Life in Hackney wrote: > Have just seen that 'Bobby' having been taken over by Watchfire some > time ago, had undergone a makeover / upgrade. I saw that too, and I agree that the presentation in > four tables of > informaiton on Accessibilillty, Privacy, Traffic and User Feedback. is much clearer - I am a bit uneasy about the change to a "commercial teaser", though. The ISOC disability chapter www.isocdisab.org offers a completely free site evaluation resource, "Cynthia says", http://www.isocdisab.org/cynthiasays.htm . which offers the possibility to test a site according Section 508 (US) and levels 1, 1 and 2, or 1, 2 and 3 of WCAG (international), and to emulate several versions of several browsers, plus 3 options: - Do not fail pages for WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 and 3 errors, simply warn me. - Include the Alternative Text Quality Report - Include File source on Accessibility Failures Not being tech literate, I don't always understand Cynthia Says' results (1). But it would be grat if you and other people who are knowledgeable could try it too and report about it. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Bcc to Michael Burkes, ISOC Disability Chapter, www.isocdisab.org Cynthia Waddell, International Center for Disabilty Reseearches on the Internet , www.icdri.org and ISOC Disability Chapter -- (1) for instance, testing our www.adisi.ch site, one of the mistakes picked up by Cynthia Says was: 11.2 Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies. * Rule: 11.2.1 - Identify the use of one or more deprecated elements or attributes within the document. o Failure - Document uses one or more deprecated elements or attributes. The document contains the element: BODY with the deprecated attribute: BGCOLOR Now we added that attribute at the request of the most accessibility-aware member of our team, who is also sight-impaired himself. If I understand http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#deprecated correctly, the failure means we should (learn how to) use CSS sheets instead of adding the color in the background tag, which is obsolete? _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
