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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Nov 8, 2010 8:39PM

Hi Randi,

The house anser would be:

WAVE Toolbar (Firefox add-on):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6720
Or online version:
http://wave.webaim.org/

Sounds like a great class!
Patrick

At 02:30 PM 11/8/2010, Ro wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My friend is taking an M.I.S. class at the University of Arizona, and
>they are building a website. They just found out today that 20% of
>their grade will be accessibility. Of course my friend is excited
>because she'll have me as a tester haha. But I'm curious about
>whatever program or site you all use that tests for accessiblity? I've
>seen it mentioned here, but can't remember what it is.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Oh yeah, I'm really excited at the emphasis they put on accessibility.
>She said the professor even talked about the percentage of the
>population they'd be alienating if their site wasn't accessible. I'll
>be sending her to WebAIM for pointers. ;)
>
>~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
>
>One Day at a Time