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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: Mar 13, 2008 8:40AM

Hi all.

It has always been my understanding that in order to consistently create accessible pages, particularly pages which are accessible to screen reader users, it is necessary to conduct testing with assistive technology. I.E. before you can say for sure something is accessible, someone has to go check. Is this view accurate? Is there a more automated way of ensuring accessibility that I'm unaware of?

I know that there have been some products marketed to be able to do so, but I was under the impression that they were just snake oil. I also know of a couple products, which are quite good at identifying potential problem areas, but that they can't possibly identify them all, nor are they immune to false-positives.

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Aaron Cannon

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