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Re: Accessibility testing program?

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From: Terrill Bennett
Date: Nov 9, 2010 8:30AM

I have a small list of 19 online tools, browser plug-ins, etc (all
links validated an hour ago):
http://bennett1.org/j15/accessibility/accessibility-links

While automated tools are great, the ultimate accessibility tests
(as-in more than one) should be real humans, using real assistive
technology. Perhaps those who oversee the UA website can put you in
contact with the appropriate testers or other students in your area:

The UA Website "About" page with contacts and other links:
http://www.arizona.edu/website

UA Web Developer Group (you might want to join?):
http://uaweb.arizona.edu/

You may want to consider learning how to use a screen reader,
yourself. While you may not become proficient, it will give you an
idea during development of how your changes are working. NVDA is
free. There's a "portable" version that does NOT install anything on
your PC - if you're using a computer on which you don't have
authority to install software, all you need to do is create a
directory, run the download to extract NVDA, and execute nvda.exe:

http://www.nvda-project.org/

Hope this helps.

-- Terrill --