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From: JR Accessibility
Date: Jun 12, 2018 12:35PM

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Peter,

My go-to source for anti-automated-tool solutions is Karl Groves of
Tenon.io . He has written extensively on this topic on his personal blog
site, most recently until the title "Automated Lies, with one line of code"
(http://www.karlgroves.com/2018/05/25/automated-lies-with-one-line-of-code/
).

He also has an article on "What can be tested and how" (
http://www.karlgroves.com/2012/09/15/accessibility-testing-what-can-be-tested-and-how/
).

I also like his four-part series on "Everything you know about
accessibility testing is wrong"
part 1 -
http://www.karlgroves.com/2014/02/13/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-1/
part 2 -
http://www.karlgroves.com/2014/02/20/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-2/
part 3 -
http://www.karlgroves.com/2014/03/07/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-is-wrong-part-3/
part 4 -
http://www.karlgroves.com/2014/03/13/everything-you-know-about-accessibility-testing-is-wrong-part-4/

Hope this helps.


On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:00 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> From: Peter Shikli < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: WebAIM Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 07:45:15 -0700
> Subject: [WebAIM] Automated Tool Counter-Citations
> We're seeing more RFPs from organizations looking to buy automated
> software tools to make their websites accessible. We have our speech about
> how empowering a trained human analyst with tools is better than hoping an
> autopilot approach will work, though we agree that is better than nothing.
> We use logic, examples, and such, but we lack authoritative citations, that
> is, references to standards (WCAG et al), legal case conclusions, official
> W3 statements, or even quotes from well known experts in our field to
> support the position that a totally automated solution is not the best way
> to go.
>
> Does anyone out there know of such citations?
>