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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Aug 5, 2008 5:40AM

I should probably have mentioned that WAVE offers a firefox toolbar
(http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar) that allows for entirely internal
testing of sites behind a firewall. I have FF2 and the toolbar works
fine - I'm unsure as to support for FF3 as of present but assume it will
be fine there too.

G


Gareth Dart
Web Developer
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ
T 01242 211128 F 01242 211122 W www.hesa.ac.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Paul Collins
Sent: Tuesday 5 August 2008 12:00
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Testing accessibility

Thanks Gareth,

Yes, you are right about automated testing, but a mixture of both human
and automated is the best way to approach it.

The benefit of Accessibilidad Web is that you can test local sites.
Often when a site is being developed you don't want it available to the
outside world.

Cheers for the link,
Paul


2008/8/5 Gareth Dart < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> I always use WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) - this seems to be a
> similar package to the one you link to below.
>
> To spare us all time, you can insert a standard caveat about the
> limitations of automated testing here. On a serious note, though,
> WAVE seems to do aboust as much as an automated solution can.
>
> G
>
>
> Gareth Dart
> Web Developer
> Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
> 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ T 01242 211128 F
> 01242 211122 W www.hesa.ac.uk
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Paul
> Collins
> Sent: Tuesday 5 August 2008 11:11
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Testing accessibility
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still using Accessibilidad Web to test my sites, because it's free

> and you can scan local versions. Just wondering, has anyone found a
> better way of testing their sites of late?!
>
> Accessibilidad web:
> http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/en
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>