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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


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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