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Re: Plans to make WAVE more robust?

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Sep 25, 2012 1:14PM

Any chance that it will be robust enough to evaluate, javascript/jquery
and AJAX accessiblity?

Thank you
Nancy Johnson

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Karen-
>
> We'll be rolling out an updated version of WAVE in the near future.
> (Yeah, I know we've been saying this forever.) A new toolbar is also
> in the works.
>
> The power of WAVE is in it's ability to provide inline feedback on a
> page-by-page basis. Simply collecting number of errors has limited
> usefulness, though we know it can be valuable for monitoring progress.
> We don't have immediate plans for a toolbar that will evaluate
> multiple pages at a time. However, we will soon be rolling out an API
> that will allow users to collect WAVE data on any number of web pages
> - you send us the URL or file, and we'll send back the WAVE data on
> errors, alert, features, etc. More enterprise-level tools are on our
> roadmap.
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> Jared
> > > >