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

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jun 9, 2006 7:20AM

> 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
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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
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