Re: [WSG] WCAG conformance and checking

[Jon Gunderson]

Simon,

Some free tools from the university of Illinois are:

Functional Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

Firefox Accessibility Extension
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu

Here is an FAE report on your page and you are doing a GREAT job on
accessibility:
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/report.php?id=w4733add8e6bae&pc=6&type=summary

Jon

P.S If anyone is interested in Web 2.0 accessibility issues, here is a
online class I am offering:
http://web20online.cita.uiuc.edu/


On Oct 26, 2007 4:00 AM, Simon Cockayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am on a mission to get the microsite that I built for my wife
> http://phd.london.edu/ygrushkacockayne/ to conform to W3C's "Web Content
> Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", available at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505, level Double-A.
>
> I am reading http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/.
>
> I realize no automated checking is foolproof...but are there any good
> automated tools to assist in WCAG conformance checking? ( I hear "cynthia"
> mentioned from time to time...any good/any details? Any others?
>
> Any good Firefox extensions/plug-ins?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> ***
> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ***


***
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***

Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

[Rick Lecoat]

On 17/10/07 (13:55) I, myself, said:

>can anyone tell me what is the best accessible way (if any) of encoding
>a mailto: link? I want to make the email addresses on a site usable to
>screen reader users, but don't want them harvested by spambots. 
>
>Javascripted solutions seem like they would create a headache for screen
>readers, and any plain text equivalent presented in the name of
>accessibility would simply be harvested instead. And I prefer to avoid
>jscript if I can anyway.
>
>Is there a way out what seems, to my inexperienced eyes, like a catch-22
>situation?

Just by way of an update on this issue, there was an interesting related
article on A List Apart a couple of days ago by Roel Van Gils.


-- 
Rick Lecoat



***
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***