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FYI - RE: Bobby Alternatives, are they any?

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From: Robert B. Yonaitis
Date: May 6, 2002 7:19AM

Another thought : A Note on independent reviews of Accessibility test
management tools

For people interested on a position paper and truly independent review:

Forrester Research identifies HiSoftware as having the most advanced
tools for accessibility, with complete testing & repair solutions in
it's "Design Accessible Sites Now" report. To order a copy of the
Forrester Report, please visit:
<http://www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Report/Summary/0,1338,11431,00.htm
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http://www.forrester.com/ER/Research/Report/Summary/0,1338,11431,00.html

Perhaps an organization like ITTATC (Information Technology Technical
Assistance and Training Center, Georgia Tech, <http://www.ittatc.org/>;
http://www.ittatc.org). could commission one of these firms that are
fully qualified to do an independent review.

By Qualified I mean:

- Independent: No Conflict of interest

- Prepared: Full test lab and qualified test teams for platforms an
technologies required to test

- Trained: in testing methodologies and tools



This is far to important to just say that because one knows
accessibility or a screen reader or an OS or Java, etc, that they can
perform a full imparti