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Re: Yes!!! It's the Accessibility World Cup!

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From: John Hicks
Date: Jun 9, 2006 7:10AM

Very true. In fact, as stated on the page, the "measure" of
accessibility is really a lower bound, an underestimation, as we are
only checking automatisable rules. Obviously, manual testing on this
scale is not possible (100 pages per site, and 60 sites per day), but
the technology we are using is of a very high quality (it is not
commercially available).

The page will be in English next week, but since the real World Cup
starts today, I got trigger happy. The countries that appear without
arrows are those that have just been added. At the next run, there
direction (going up? going down?) will be apparent.

Your point is very important, but we believe that, other things being
equal, these mechanical tests give a pretty good sign of what the site
operator thinks of accessibility. As far as appearances are concerned,
it is interesting to see the relation ship between the overall average
and the number of detectable errors on the first page...

It would also be important to weigh the errors in terms of there WAI
priority levels.

Best wishes,

John


Patrick Lauke wrote:
>> John Hicks
>>
>
>
>> To expand this service beyond the borders of its homebase
>> (France), and
>> to jump on the world cup bandwagon, Urbilog is introducing a page of
>> comparison for over 60 national sites. The top 20 are ranked
>> in order
>> with details on numbers of accessibilty errors.
>>
>
> Am I right in thinking that you're doing a purely automated check, with
> no manual testing involved? If that's the case...how useful are those
> rankings in reflecting the *actual* accessibility of the different sites?
> Also, is there any page explaining exactly any heuristics your automated
> tools may be applying? Are you still testing against the "Until user agents..."
> checkpoints, even when modern practice tells us that most of them are now
> fairly obsolete?
>
> Patrick
> ________________________________
> Patrick H. Lauke
> Web Editor / University of Salford
> http://www.salford.ac.uk
> ________________________________
> Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
> http://webstandards.org/
> ________________________________
>
>
>


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