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Re: Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online"

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From: Richard R. Hill
Date: Dec 13, 2010 2:27PM

Note that the FAE tool test for certain rules that are specific to that tool (not generally required or labelled as a best practice by other Web standards). For instance, the FAE tool marks folks down for have more than one H1 on a page. This is a Illinois rule, not a W3C or 508 rule. SO, those who adhere to more of these will have slightly higher rankings.

Still unclear as to the scope and depth of the pages/sites tested.
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Rick Hill, Web CMS Administrator
University Communications, UC Davis


From: "Gunderson, Jon R" < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >>
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:44:19 -0800
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online"

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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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
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"Gunderson, Jon R" < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <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