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From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Dec 13, 2010 1:45PM

I used the Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator to evaluate the websites:

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu

It is free tool.

If your register will allow you test multiple pages:

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/accounts/register/

Each rule in the report will provide details about what it is actually testing:

http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/about/rules/

Jon


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Cliff Tyllick
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online"

Jon, can you tell us more about the methods used to determine the rankings in the chart?

The footnotes clue us in to what was measured, but was this done with an automated tool? With scores of volunteers?

And what are common examples of failure on each measure? For example, would a site pass or fail on "site name readable on all pages" if the one identifier common to all pages is the school logo (with alt text) at upper left? Or were you looking for the site name to be included in each page's title tag?

Thanks!
Cliff

Cliff Tyllick
Usability assessment coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-4516
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>>> On 12/13/2010 at 11:32 AM, in message
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >,
"Gunderson, Jon R" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students
Online":

http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/



And a sidebar about Cal State*s success:

http://chronicle.com/article/Cal-States-Strong-Push-for/125683/



Chart ranking the best and worst college web sites:

http://chronicle.com/article/BestWorst-College-Web/125642/




Jon Gunderson