Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Chad Kelly
gt; > -Original Message- > > On Behalf Of Chad Kelly > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:40 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org <mailto:wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing > > Hi > Your best bet would be to look at the tools prov

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew Boyd
s for passing it along > > it's > > a great resource... > > > > Cheers, > > Doug Burt > > > > -Original Message----- > > > > On Behalf Of Chad Kelly > > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:40 PM > > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > >

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Jim Croft
> a great resource... > > Cheers, > Doug Burt > > -Original Message- > > On Behalf Of Chad Kelly > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:40 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing > > Hi > Your best bet would be to look

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew Boyd
Hi, It's worth looking at what W3C has to say - see http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/Overview.html - but it depends what your goals are. Do you want to pick up as many code-level issues as possible or undertake a conformance check in accordance with the WCAG 2.0 standard? Cheers, Andrew Andrew Boyd

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Doug Burt
ginal Message- On Behalf Of Chad Kelly Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:40 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing Hi Your best bet would be to look at the tools provided by Vision Australia visionaustralia.org under accessible solutions. They have a free toolbar yo

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Spellacy, Michael
2011 1:04 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing We are currently negotiating with one of the major automated accessibility tool vendors to resell their tool in the UK. We cannot sell into the US so I have forwarded your message and they should contact you.

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Green
1 17:16 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessibility Testing Hi WSG Friends! The company I work for is considering dropping WatchFire for testing because of the price. I'm really concerned about not being able to test code against specific accessibility guidelines like WCAG 1.0 or 2.0. D

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Spellacy, Michael
. Regards, Spell -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chad Kelly Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:40 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing Hi Your best bet would be to look at the tools

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Chad Kelly
Hi Your best bet would be to look at the tools provided by Vision Australia visionaustralia.org under accessible solutions. They have a free toolbar you can download. I am also looking at providing web accessibility testing services as a part of the services offered by CPK Web Services. Would a

[WSG] Accessibility Testing

2011-06-24 Thread Spellacy, Michael
Hi WSG Friends! The company I work for is considering dropping WatchFire for testing because of the price. I'm really concerned about not being able to test code against specific accessibility guidelines like WCAG 1.0 or 2.0. Do any of you know of any cheaper (or free) applications that do just as

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2010-10-22 Thread Richard R. Hill
p.org<mailto:wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>" mailto:wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>> Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org<mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org> [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Lesley Lutomski Sent: 22 Octobe

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Testing

2010-10-22 Thread Steve Green
-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Lesley Lutomski Sent: 22 October 2010 14:49 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Accessibility Testing On 20/10/10 21:13, Nick Stone wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions

[WSG] Accessibility Testing

2010-10-22 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 20/10/10 21:13, Nick Stone wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions on how to obtain website usability feedback > from various members of the disabled community? Kevin Ireson replied with some helpful comments, but I think Nick's main point was that there is no substitute for testing by real p

RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-27 Thread Foskett, Mike
February 2009 12:03 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing http://faetest.dres.uiuc.edu I'm totally shocked, that tool is actually quite good. If I get time later I'll run it through a few problematic sites and compare against manual reviewed reports. Mi

Re: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread heather
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

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Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Dorward wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: 2: according to specs (and browsers) a character encoding stated in an xml declaration is good, and further stating unnecessary. No warning should be given in such a case. An declaration (or anything else before the Doctype) will trigger Quirks mo

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

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2009-02-17 Thread heather
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2009-02-17 Thread heather
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2009-02-17 Thread heather
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2009-02-17 Thread heather
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Re: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread heather
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Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread Shawn Henry
What similar software / online systems do people use [for web accessibility testing]... For an extensive list of Web accessibility evaluation software and online systems ("tools"), see: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/Overview.html It's a searchable database of over 100 tools. And I'll

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread David Dorward
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > 2: according to specs (and browsers) a character encoding stated in an > xml declaration is good, and further stating unnecessary. > No warning should be given in such a case. An declaration (or anything else before the Doctype) will trigger Quirks mode in IE6 so should be

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jon Gunderson wrote: http://faetest.dres.uiuc.edu Please let me know what you think of it. First impression: good. Informative page reports. A few points... 1: i and b can in many cases not be replaced by h1..h6 or em and strong. Both i and b are valid - span-like (no implied semantics) - e

RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-17 Thread Foskett, Mike
sgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: 16 February 2009 17:25 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator service. It is a free service, no cost to create an acco

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-16 Thread Dani Iswara
On Firefox (fx) with web developer extension, add ATRC web accessibility checker (testing; sometimes temporary down) against WCAG 2.0, WCAG 1.0, BITV, Stanca Act, Section 508. Open the tools menu of its extension: Edit tools Add choose (tool type) URL add: http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/servlet/C

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-16 Thread Jon Gunderson
You can try the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator service. It is a free service, no cost to create an account. http://faetest.dres.uiuc.edu This is the Candidate release 1, that hopefully be our production version available later this week. Please let me know what you think of it.

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-15 Thread Jennie K
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > Also take account of results in published surveys of actual users. > > For example, see screen-reader user survey: > > http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ > > > > On Sat, February 14, 2009 11:35 pm, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-15 Thread Jennie K
You can also try Vision Australia's Toolbar http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1985 They have quite a few tools (that work with IE - I also have the firefox one as well). I never rely on one completely on a single tool and check using multiple as they all give slightly different res

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-15 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Also take account of results in published surveys of actual users. For example, see screen-reader user survey: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ On Sat, February 14, 2009 11:35 pm, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > On 11/2/09 05:59, Henrik Madsen wrote: >> What similar software / onl

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-14 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 11/2/09 05:59, Henrik Madsen wrote: What similar software / online systems do people use and get reliable results (if reliable results are indeed attainable)? Define "reliable results". :) Such systems are intrinsically limited in what they can test. If your contract requires you to pass c

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-11 Thread Todd Budnikas
The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (by Chris Pederick: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/) has an option under "Tools" to validate Section 508. In the end, it ultimately just point to this site: http://www.cynthiasays.com/fulloptions.asp There is an optional select menu to change from Sec

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-11 Thread Maurivan Luiz
Hi Henrik Madsen, I also work with Mac, if needed use sofwares 'windows only'I usually use the VirtualBox, this software is Opensource. This software has an incredible performance to emulate other operating systems inside the windows, and more! is opensource (: See this link: http://www.v

RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-10 Thread Michael MD
> Now, here's the thing. This software is only for PC. I'm Mac. Not very > accessible eh? :) > It appears to be based on eclipse ... (probably java based like other eclipse-based stuff) Might it be possible to build it from source on Mac or Linux? Has anyone here tried this? I never really

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Dolkens
http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/ http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/Apple_Boot_Camp/4-200398-1.html Problem solved? Otherwise, Firefox has plugins that give nice reports, (HTML Validator plugin may have had the Accessibility options, i can't remember, it's been a while since i used it) A

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Harris
Henrik Madsen wrote: Now, here's the thing. This software is only for PC. I'm Mac. Not very accessible eh? :) What similar software / online systems do people use and get reliable results (if reliable results are indeed attainable)? I use VirtualBox (www.virtualBox.org) to run virtual Win

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-10 Thread Luke Hoggett
Parallels Henrik Madsen wrote: Hi all, I'm wrapping up a Government agency website. They have reams of design and usability standards. Some pretty pointless; others very valid - but no problem. Re. accessibility, they use ACTF aDesigner. http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/tools/aDesign

[WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-10 Thread Henrik Madsen
Hi all, I'm wrapping up a Government agency website. They have reams of design and usability standards. Some pretty pointless; others very valid - but no problem. Re. accessibility, they use ACTF aDesigner. http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/tools/aDesigner/index.php And "our scores ag