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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Aug 23, 2010 8:21AM

We are using IBM Rational Policy Tester/Watchfire. The tool works well and support from IBM for the tool has been good. We only use the automated checks for section 508 and have the manual checks turned off. We tried the manual checks but every page flags and that was just too much to deal with on a large site. Although the automated checks only give us a partial view of our html accessibility compliance it has given us a good opportunity to standardize our approach and fix problems within the templates. We have also found that when new pages are posted and get caught in the checks that we can identify developers who need further training and we can catch manually checked issues at that time.

Mike Moore
(512) 424-4159