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Re: Evaluating accessibility level for managers

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Jul 6, 2006 8:20AM

Stephanie,
You may want to look at a tool being developed at the University of Illinios
called the "Functional Accessibility Evaluator". It has a summary report
designed for managers, I would be interested in your comments on how
effective you think it would be to use with managers or if you show it to
managers what they think of it.

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

Jon


On 6/16/06, Stephane Deschamps < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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