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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Sep 2, 2014 3:36PM

Hi, I just did a training at the Austin Accessibility Meetup on web accessibility testing with Jim Thatcher's Favelets and used good and bad examples to show the problems. http://pauljadam.com/favelets/

I love to do live screen reader demos and accessibility testing and did the presentation from an iPad.

I have 2 a11y before and after demos that I often use for live trainings:

Accessible University 2.0 <http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/AU/>;
W3C's BAD - Before and After Demo <http://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/>;

Also you can find some random popular sites like CNN.com which usually have tons of issues.

I often have to make my own demos of how things should work for complex widgets like dialogs but I don't make the bad demos since you can find that on pretty much any site out there.

You could ask the audience for some sites to test live too :)

Good luck!


Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
www.deque.com

On Sep 2, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Julius Charles Serrano < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
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> I just want to get your thoughts about using samples of web pages when doing WCAG 2.0 trainings.
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> I find that when doing WCAG trainings, you will need to talk about quite a lot of issues and recommendations. And to make things clearer to the audience, you may need to show pages that have the various accessibility issues. And to me, it becomes quite a challenge to find sample pages that demonstrate the issues (i.e. one page for alt text on images, one page for keyboard accessibility, etc)
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> So, I want to know, how do you deal with the challenge of finding sample web pages? Do you generally have to find sample pages for each issue, or is there another approach * or a specific online resource * to demonstrate the issues discussed in WCAG?
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> Thanks very much.
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