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Re: Test Cases for Evaluating Accessibility Testing Software?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Feb 2, 2016 8:38AM

Thanks, all. That's a start.

One thing I ran across is the French Standard, Référentiel Général
d'Accessibilité pour les Administrations or RGAA (
https://references.modernisation.gouv.fr/rgaa-3-0). SSB BART has a quick
article about it here:
http://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/french-accessibility-requirements/

The main thing I noticed is this standard is based on WCAG 2.0 and includes*
"unit tests that define how to determine compliance with each requirement"*.
It looks like the Tanaguru accessibility testing suite (
https://github.com/Tanaguru/Tanaguru) is based on this standard. So I
think a good non-example site would use those unit tests to trigger
failures or notifications that manual checks are needed. Since that is a
government standard based on WCAG 2.0, that would serve as an objective
reference for evaluating accessibility testing tools.

What do you think? Does that make sense?

Best,
Rob

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Guy Hickling < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> And here is another one, which I found just yesterday as it happens, from
> Pennsylvania State University, that they did for testing the test tools:
>
> http://accessibility.psu.edu/testing/testingtools/testbadpage/
>
> And for the list you are asking for, of features for accessibility
testing,
> I'm currently building a list myself. It's very much work in progress and
> only half finished, but you can see it at:
> http://www.enigmaticweb.com/index.php/blog/accessibilityChecklist
>
> Regards,
> Guy Hickling
> > > > --
Robert Fentress
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