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Re: Test Cases for Evaluating Accessibility Testing Software?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Feb 2, 2016 9:01AM

This looks interesting, though I'd really like it if there was just one big
page that triggered all the errors.
http://www.kbaccess.org/?lang=en

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Robert Fentress < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > > > > > > >
>
>
>
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