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From: Paul Bohman
Date: Dec 6, 2002 6:50PM

Although it is still very much a work in progress, I'd like to make the
WAVE 3.0 alpha available to the public.

You can find it at www.wave.webaim.org.

WebAIM has continued development the WAVE project which Len Kasday
started at Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), at
The Institute on Disabilities, Temple University.

Not all of the planned enhancements are functional yet, but I think you
will be pleased with the many that are. It's a great tool for checking
your web sites for accessibility problems.

For those who have never used the WAVE before, it has a slightly
different philosophy than some of the other tools out there. It doesn't
give you a list of errors. It displays icons in the contetxt of the page
itself which show you where various elements are in the page, such as
layout tables, image alt text, form labels and so on. Not all of the
icons represent errors. In fact, icons are placed in the document in the
places where you did things right too. This allows you to evaluate the
effectiveness of your work in the context of the page itself. For
example, the WAVE prints out your alt text right next to the image. This
allows you to judge whether the alt text is appropriate for the image.

But perhaps it would just be easier to explain if you took a look for
yourself, so I invite you to do just that.

You may want to read "What's New in WAVE 3.0 Alpha?" at
http://www.wave.webaim.org/new_in_3_0.htm. We haven't yet completed our
documentation, but this will give you an idea of many of the changes
implemented so far.

See also the explanation of icons at
http://www.wave.webaim.org:8081/wave/explanation.htm (this also is a
work in progress)

We invite your feedback, comments, bug reports and ideas on all aspects
of the project.

Paul Bohman
Technology Coordinator
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
www.webaim.org
Center for Persons with Disabilities
www.cpd.usu.edu
Utah State University
www.usu.edu


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