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From: Asa Baylus
Date: Jul 15, 2015 8:23PM


Hi Gus,

You may not need to self host, you could create an SSH tunnel to support your testing using a hosted platform such as the Wave API behind the firewall.
Here's an article with some helpful info: http://blog.trackets.com/2014/05/17/ssh-tunnel-local-and-remote-port-forwarding-explained-with-examples.html <http://blog.trackets.com/2014/05/17/ssh-tunnel-local-and-remote-port-forwarding-explained-with-examples.html>;

But a faster/easier solution is https://ngrok.com/ <https://ngrok.com/>

In the open source space you have a number of good options which you can self host, Googles accessibility developer tools might be a good place to start.
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tools <https://github.com/GoogleChrome/accessibility-developer-tools>

At Tenon.io some of our customers choose an SSH tunnel over an enterprise install. If you're set on self hosting though there are a number of options. Disclaimer, I'm the co-founder of http://tenon.io <http://tenon.io/>; and we are big Jenkins fans. Please feel free to contact me about how we can support Jenkins.

Regards,

Asa

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Gus Reiber < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am an employee at CloudBees, one of the leading contributors to the
> Jenkins-ci.org community, and looking for help on 2 fronts.
>
> First, Jenkins is a build automation tool with a web GUI and as such, we
> would like to make that web GUI 508 compliant. The product is secured, so I
> am looking for a means of automatically crawling the pages of the
> application and am assuming this would preclude using the web based API.
> The "Downloadable API Manager (coming soon)" seems like what I want. Does
> anyone know an ETA for the coming soon aspect of the tool or know of a
> viable alternative?
>
> Second, since Jenkins is a build automation tool, we would be interested in
> adding an automation framework for 508 testing and HTML validation within
> Jenkins. Would this be something I could do with the Wave API Manager and
> does anyone out there have any experience automating 508 compliance testing?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Gus
> > > >