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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jun 21, 2006 11:40PM

Emma,
Thank you for your comments on FAE. We do plan to add test in
the future for contrast and for readibility.

Jon

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:23:08 +0100
>From: "Emma Duke-Williams" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Evaluating accessibility level for
managers
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>On 6/17/06, Rainer Wagener < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> let me first state: I'm not very much in favor of automatic
testing
>> tools.
>> Especially when a site I'm responsible for does not pass
100% ;-)
>>
>My initial reaction was the same as Rainer's ... I was somewhat
>struggling to work out why I'd failed on somethings ... till I
>realised I'd put the wrong URL in & got the University's 404
page!
>
>There are only two things wrong, the search box label that
I'm still
>trying to sort out ..the defeatist in me says "you're the
only person
>who uses it - remove it & use Google's site search when
you're looking
>for a post" ; the completist in me says "Get it sorted, don't
worry
>about it looking weird - who's going to care" The other thing
that's
>missing is the language declaration - I'll have to check the word
>press template, as I'd have thought I ought to be able to add it.
>
>It's a danger though to rely on auto-testing I think - to
start with,
>I'm sure that my header logo doens't give enough contrast
with the
>background - and it's not, as far as I can tell, alterted me
to the
>fact that I've got audio feeds in there - I'd have liked it to at
>least ask if I've checked that a transcript is available, if
>appropriate.
>
>The other thing that I feel strongly should be included -
even though
>I know that I'd fail, would be checks to find the
readability. We've
>got a lot of students who are dyslexic (none are blind), so
ensuring
>that I use accessible language is actually of far more
importance to
>me than a label on a search box that few use.
>
>As a tool, though, it's nice & clear & quick! (Does it work
on off
>line pages so that you can test them before they even see the
light of
>day?)
>
>Emma
>
>--
>Blog: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/
>
>
>


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

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