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From: wolfgang.berndorfer@zweiterblick.at
Date: Jun 29, 2022 8:49AM

Steve, I was not formulating precisely. Sorry! I try to clarify.

What I meant:
It is hard to find EACH keyboard and focus, audio and video failure with tools or by manual testing. So we have to extend responsibility to authors.

Does this make sense to you now?

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Steve Green
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Website evaluations

Wolfgang, unless I am misunderstanding, you are saying that manual testing cannot find non-conformances with the success criteria for keyboard and focus failure, audio and video. Manual testing can find all non-conformances relating to those success criteria. Why do you think it can't?

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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Sent: 28 June 2022 18:56
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Website evaluations

Supplementary:
If I am asked before evaluation and generally in my evaluation report I suggest:

1. Care about your code by html validation. Each technician should know about https://validator.w3.org/ an know about solving announced errors or warnings. It is annoying to report the small once one techs.
2. Put away your mouse and then try out to use your navigation and forms. That is not black pedagogy, that is reminding of craft.

Hardly any keyboard and focus failure, audio and video SC can be found with tools or manual testing. So e have to extend responsibility to authors.

Wolfgang


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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2022 3:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Website evaluations

The general strategy is definitely a combination of an automated site crawler scan (a scan that crawls the site and scans every page) ad a manual accessiblity assessment of key pages and component
Pages:
The HomePage
Contact Us page
Search page (if there is one)
Landing pages for key categories
One page per categry or template (say articles, blogs)
Components:
Any components used consistently across the site
* Head/footer
* Any navigation menus or modal popups used consistently
* Check for videos and any online media player (make sure those are accessible and support closed captions and ideally audio description)

The automated scan can be done monthly (it's quick and, depending on what you choose, can be inexpensive) Manual assessments of key pages should be done quarterly (or less, depending on how often your site is updated).

Here are two options, depending on budget

Wav'es Accessibility I'm back service
https://wave.webaim.org/aim/
(site scan + manual assessment of 4 pages for $500).
You may have to supplement with assessment of more pages and components.

If you want the lowest cost DIY possible:

Axe crawler (opensource):
https://github.com/tjscollins/axe-crawler
(open source, runs Axe on every page), + you'd have to conduct manual reviews yourself or hire someone to do it.

All the big vendors, Deque/Level Access/TPGI offer some form of these services at various price point.
I've heard good things about Accessibility 360, but I've never used them directly.



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