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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Tue, Feb 22 2011 2:39PM
Subject: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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Hi folks,

I am doing a bit of market research on enterprise level accessibility testing tools and want to make sure that I am not missing anything. So far we have Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft on the list. We are looking at systems capable of scanning large websites. Anyone else that we should be looking at?

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator, DARS

From: Christina Porter
Date: Wed, Feb 23 2011 7:42PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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I would be interested in how useful you find the tools.

HiSoft
was used a few years ago to audit the govt agency sites here in NZ.�
I found the HiSoft report generally meaningless but it might have improved
since then.

We have a lot of pdf files on our site.� And
nearly all are converted to HTML equivalents, the tool picked up that pdf
files existed and gave us a fail and did not continue.

I was
quite disappointed in the result but it may have been due to poor
deployment.

> Hi folks,
>
> I am doing a
bit of market research on enterprise level accessibility
> testing
tools and want to make sure that I am not missing anything. So far
> we have Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft on the list. We are looking
at
> systems capable of scanning large websites. Anyone else that
we should be
> looking at?
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator, DARS
>

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Wed, Feb 23 2011 8:06PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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There is the eGoverenment project in Norway, they use a tool to
monitor all their regional government web sites to give a report
(though based on WCAG 1.0).
www.egovmon.no
I have no idea if it is up to par, quality wise, with the other
software you mentioned, but I know the people behind it are smart and
moving forward, so it might be worth it to give it, at least, a
glance.
Thanks
-B

On 2/24/11, Christina Porter < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>
> I would be interested in how useful you find the tools.
>
> HiSoft
> was used a few years ago to audit the govt agency sites here in NZ.
> I found the HiSoft report generally meaningless but it might have improved
> since then.
>
> We have a lot of pdf files on our site.  And
> nearly all are converted to HTML equivalents, the tool picked up that pdf
> files existed and gave us a fail and did not continue.
>
> I was
> quite disappointed in the result but it may have been due to poor
> deployment.
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am doing a
> bit of market research on enterprise level accessibility
>> testing
> tools and want to make sure that I am not missing anything. So far
>> we have Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft on the list. We are looking
> at
>> systems capable of scanning large websites. Anyone else that
> we should be
>> looking at?
>>
>> Mike Moore
>> Accessibility Coordinator, DARS
>>
>

From: Elle
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 5:03AM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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>
>
> Hi, Mike!

Also, include SSB Bart's Accessibility Management Platform (AMP):
https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/amp/index.php. After that, you've got all the
ones we looked at when we were doing our research, and I believe, all the
major enterprise level tools.

All the best,
Elle



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> To: < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:37:10 -0600
> Subject: [WebAIM] Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
> Hi folks,
>
> I am doing a bit of market research on enterprise level accessibility
> testing tools and want to make sure that I am not missing anything. So far
> we have Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft on the list. We are looking at
> systems capable of scanning large websites. Anyone else that we should be
> looking at?
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator, DARS
>

From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:09AM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools (Functional Accessibility Evaluator)
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Christina,

The Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator is free to use tool to evaluate multiple web pages.

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu

Version 1.1 released last month will analyze dynamically generated HTML content from inline scripting and onload events.

You can create a free account at following link:

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/accounts/register/

There are currently more than 2000 registered users and FAE has analyzed over a million web pages for accessibility features in the past year.

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/about/usage/?span=all

Jon

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 9:27AM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools (Functional Accessibility Evaluator)
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Jon

Is the analyzer itself accessible to screen reader users (I know,
sounds like almost an insulting question, but many of those evaluators
I have tried turn out not to be).


On 2/24/11, Gunderson, Jon R < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Christina,
>
> The Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator is free to use tool to
> evaluate multiple web pages.
>
> http://fae.cita.illinois.edu
>
> Version 1.1 released last month will analyze dynamically generated HTML
> content from inline scripting and onload events.
>
> You can create a free account at following link:
>
> http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/accounts/register/
>
> There are currently more than 2000 registered users and FAE has analyzed
> over a million web pages for accessibility features in the past year.
>
> http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/about/usage/?span=all
>
> Jon
>
>
>

From: Jason Kiss
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 12:36PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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You may or may not want to look at Parasoft SOATest
(http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/soatest.jsp?itemId=101). It is an
enterprise level test suite that includes automated tests for Section
508 and WCAG 2, and customisable rules. While the accessibility tools
are there, they do seem to be just one part of what is a larger set of
functional, load, security and other testing tools, so I wouldn't say
that it is a tool fully dedicated to testing accessibility like SSB
Bart's AMP or Deque Worldspace.

I don't know what the software is like these days. I used it years ago
when it was just called Parasoft Webking, and you could get the
functional and static code analysis package on its own without all the
load, security, and other stuff. One thing I liked about it then was the
ability to build custom rules to do things like verify that certain
images, for example logos, had specific alt-text that was required by
the technical specs of the contract.

Cheers,

Jason

On 25/02/11 01:02, Elle wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi, Mike!
>
> Also, include SSB Bart's Accessibility Management Platform (AMP):
> https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/amp/index.php. After that, you've got all the
> ones we looked at when we were doing our research, and I believe, all the
> major enterprise level tools.
>
> All the best,
> Elle
>
>
>
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>> From:< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> To:< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:37:10 -0600
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am doing a bit of market research on enterprise level accessibility
>> testing tools and want to make sure that I am not missing anything. So far
>> we have Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft on the list. We are looking at
>> systems capable of scanning large websites. Anyone else that we should be
>> looking at?
>>
>> Mike Moore
>> Accessibility Coordinator, DARS
>>
>

From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Thu, Feb 24 2011 12:48PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools (Functional Accessibility Evaluator)
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Yes FAE is accessible.

Jon

From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Fri, Feb 25 2011 12:42PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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I just took a look at the Parasoft website and there's nothing written up about accessibility or Section 508 conformance anywhere on their site - product overview, core capabilities, information as to whether the product itself is Section 508 conformant or accessible.

Here at the US HHS, we're required to use "Accenture," though many organizations also use Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft in addition to the HHS-mandated Accenture.


Gary M. Morin, Program Analyst
NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer
10401 Fernwood Rd, Room 3G-17
Bethesda, MD 20892, Mail Stop: 4833

(301) 402-3924 Voice, 451-9326 TTY/NTS
Videophone (240) 380-3063; (301) 402-4464 Fax

NIH Section 508 Team: mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ?subject=Section 508 Helpor, for Section 508 Guidance, http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/index.html

From: Jason Kiss
Date: Fri, Feb 25 2011 3:45PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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I'm not trying to promote Parasoft in anyway, but it's not clear to me
if you mean that there's no information about the Parasoft software's
own compliance with Section 508 and how accessible it is, or if you mean
that you couldn't find any information about Parasoft's accessibility
and Section 508 testing capabilities.

It wouldn't surprise me if the software itself is not Section 508
compliant, but it does perform conformance checking:
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/article.jsp?articleId=1084. Also,
click the "Quality Governance" link on the page at
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/soatest.jsp?itemId=101. However,
that this information is so difficult to find on their site is probably
not a good sign.

--
Jason Kiss
Web: www.accessibleculture.org
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Twitter: @jkiss


On 26/02/11 08:37, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] wrote:
> I just took a look at the Parasoft website and there's nothing
> written up about accessibility or Section 508 conformance anywhere on
> their site - product overview, core capabilities, information as to
> whether the product itself is Section 508 conformant or accessible.
>
> Here at the US HHS, we're required to use "Accenture," though many
> organizations also use Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft in addition to
> the HHS-mandated Accenture.
>
>
> Gary M. Morin, Program Analyst NIH Office of the Chief Information
> Officer 10401 Fernwood Rd, Room 3G-17 Bethesda, MD 20892, Mail Stop:
> 4833
>
> (301) 402-3924 Voice, 451-9326 TTY/NTS Videophone (240) 380-3063;
> (301) 402-4464 Fax
>
> NIH Section 508 Team:
> mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ?subject=Section 508 Helpor, for
> Section 508 Guidance, http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/index.html
>
>
>
>

From: William Lawrence
Date: Fri, Feb 25 2011 3:51PM
Subject: Re: Enterprise Level Accessibility Testing Tools
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Having worked with the "Accenture Digital Diagnostics Engine" and the
"IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition" solutions for some
time, I would not recommend adding either of those names to a list
with Deque, HiSoftware, SSB BART Group as an enterprise solution for
accessibility scanning.

Cheers!
William

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I just took a look at the Parasoft website and there's nothing written up about accessibility or Section 508 conformance anywhere on their site - product overview, core capabilities, information as to whether the product itself is Section 508 conformant or accessible.
>
> Here at the US HHS, we're required to use "Accenture," though many organizations also use Deque, IBM/Watchfire and HiSoft in addition to the HHS-mandated Accenture.
>
>
> Gary M. Morin, Program Analyst
> NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer
> 10401 Fernwood Rd, Room 3G-17
> Bethesda, MD 20892, Mail Stop: 4833
>
> (301) 402-3924 Voice, 451-9326 TTY/NTS
> Videophone (240) 380-3063; (301) 402-4464 Fax
>
> NIH Section 508 Team: mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ?subject=Section 508 Helpor, for Section 508 Guidance, http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/index.html
>
>
>
>