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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jun 21, 2006 11:00PM

We are developing a tool at the University of Illinois that
does provide a summary for managers. It estimated the number
og rules passed, check it out.

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/

Would be interested in any comments people have about the tool.

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:36:20 -0400
>From: "Karl Groves" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for
managers
>To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>I was going to comment on that as well.
>Implying a percentage of compliance is ignoring the fact that
each different
>item has a different impact and each "violation" can vary in
its severity as
>well.
>Some violations are mere nuisances whereas others are a
complete barrier to
>access.
>
>
>Karl L. Groves
>User-Centered Design, Inc.
>Office: 703-729-0998
>Mobile: 443-889-8763
>E-Mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>Web: http://www.user-centereddesign.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of
>> Sailesh Panchang
>> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:39 AM
>> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>> Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for
managers
>>
>> Not sure how you calculated the percentages. This is not
>> something suggested in the WCAG and therefore no method is
>> set out for it. Using percentages indeed conveys a wrong
>> picture. Certain checkpoints may not apply to your Web
>> content. Or, how did you account for the number of instances a
>> particular checkpoint was complied with on a particular Web
>> page? How did
>> these figure in your percentage?
>>
>> Sailesh Panchang
>> Senior Accessibility Engineer
>> Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
>> 11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #400,
>> Reston VA 20191
>> Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
>> E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of
>> Stephane Deschamps
>> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:44 AM
>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for managers
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're having a problem with how accessibility level is
>> conveyed to managers.
>>
>> We've tested a site lately, and it conforms to 39% to A and
>> 48% to A+AA.
>> So, seen from a manager's point of view, it seems that
>> they're better at AA than at A.
>>
>> Which could be a problem, because they may eventually be more
>> careful about some AA criteria which are perhaps more
>> spectacular than basic but necessary A criteria.
>>
>> We're afraid that it's not very representative of the overall
>> quality of the site.
>>
>> We've tried doing some perequation, like A+AA is computed in
>> such a way that A criteria weigh twice as much as AA criteria
>> for instance, but it's not very effective, and I'm not
>> personally very comfortable with 'tweaked'
>> results. Someone will end up redoing the calculations and
>> could call us frauds ;)
>>
>> What do you all think? How do you people convey the idea that
>> A is more important than AA, and samely that AA is more
>> important than AAA?
>>
>> --
>> Stephane Deschamps
>> Paris Web 2006 :
>> http://www.parisweb2006.org/
>> (qualit