Several years ago when I was learning about accessibility and putting
together some accessibility resources, I found numerous WebAIM
resources to be extremely helpful. I listed quite a few of them on
this page: http://technology.berkeley.edu/cio/tpo/resources/
index.html#accessibility
The article I found most useful was the one: http://www.webaim.org/
articles/screenreader_testing/ which explained how to do an
accessibility walk-through using a screen reader on any computer. It
turns out that you can download a timed version of most screen
readers which allows you to really see what someone using them would
experience. There is some debate about whether you can do an
'accurate' walk-through if you are using your sight, as well as
whether you can really understand how the screenreader works if you
don't spend the time learning it that a normal user would. However, I
found doing a walk-through of a site with a screen reader to be very
helpful (especially to gain empathy about the potential complexity of
the tool) after spending just a short time learning the commands.
Allison
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Michael S Elledge wrote:
I've found WebAIM to be a great resource, and the WAVE to be a
useful tool, although it doesn't seem to provide the depth of
analysis that the U-Toronto Accessibility Checker provides (that
can be either a drawback or a benefit, depending on the
circumstances :-) ) .
Mike
Eli Cochran wrote:
I just got an email from Berkeley Web Accessibility Group pointing
me to WAVE, a tool published by WebAIM which does an automated
site accessibility report, similar to the W3C validation tools.
http://wave.webaim.org/
They have also released a Firefox plug-in that allows for local
evaluations, nothing sent to the server.
http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar
I briefly messed about with the plug-in and it seems useful.
Perhaps someone with more experience with accessibility can do a
more thorough evaluation.
Before today, I hadn't heard of WebAIM. Anyone have an opinion
about this group in general? Should we be linking to them? Working
with them?
- Eli
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley
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