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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 24, 2017 8:35PM

Well said Jared and co.
I really do not like tools that flag every possible error ( often with
little to no user impact) as an error, and flag everything as
critical.
As the saying goes "if everything is critical, then nothing is critical.".
For those who may secretly think that I sold out after transferring
to a mainstream company, no, on the contrary, I get more uptight about
usability things that are not necessarily WCAG violations, but I
concentrate on things that I believe make a real difference to real
users, and tools that report a bunch of false or borderline technical
accessibility problems with questionable user impact are not helping
the journey towards a truly inclusive digital experience.
In my evaluation of a variety of accessibility tools, I shockingly
found this was often the case (and, no WebAIM was noet among them, I
can't wait for the WebAIM keyboard accessible Firefox plug-in).



On 2/24/17, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I agree with that assessment. Some things like empty data cells in a table
> that they suggested was an error, I would have a hard time teaching our
> developers to interpret the results if things like that were flagged. You
> will also be happy to know that our current process for our developers
> starts with the WAVE tool in Chrome and has resulted in a dramatic drop in
> accessibility bugs found at QA time.
>
> Mike Moore
> EIR (Electronic Information Resources) Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
>
>
> Making electronic information and services accessible to people with
> disabilities is everyone's job. I am here to help.
>
>