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From: Ro
Date: Mon, Nov 08 2010 3:30PM
Subject: Accessibility testing program?
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Hi all,
My friend is taking an M.I.S. class at the University of Arizona, and
they are building a website. They just found out today that 20% of
their grade will be accessibility. Of course my friend is excited
because she'll have me as a tester haha. But I'm curious about
whatever program or site you all use that tests for accessiblity? I've
seen it mentioned here, but can't remember what it is.
Thanks in advance!
Oh yeah, I'm really excited at the emphasis they put on accessibility.
She said the professor even talked about the percentage of the
population they'd be alienating if their site wasn't accessible. I'll
be sending her to WebAIM for pointers. ;)
~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
One Day at a Time
From: Patrick Burke
Date: Mon, Nov 08 2010 8:39PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility testing program?
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Hi Randi,
The house anser would be:
WAVE Toolbar (Firefox add-on):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6720
Or online version:
http://wave.webaim.org/
Sounds like a great class!
Patrick
At 02:30 PM 11/8/2010, Ro wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>My friend is taking an M.I.S. class at the University of Arizona, and
>they are building a website. They just found out today that 20% of
>their grade will be accessibility. Of course my friend is excited
>because she'll have me as a tester haha. But I'm curious about
>whatever program or site you all use that tests for accessiblity? I've
>seen it mentioned here, but can't remember what it is.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Oh yeah, I'm really excited at the emphasis they put on accessibility.
>She said the professor even talked about the percentage of the
>population they'd be alienating if their site wasn't accessible. I'll
>be sending her to WebAIM for pointers. ;)
>
>~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
>
>One Day at a Time
From: Ro
Date: Tue, Nov 09 2010 7:33AM
Subject: Re: Accessibility testing program?
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Ah thank you Patrick! Yeah she's really excited about it. We had
wondered if the class would address accessibility at all and we both
doubted it. So when the whole lecture was about it yesterday and she
found out it would be 20% of her grade, she was over the moon and
texted me from class haha. She'll be the only one with a tester. ;
Very exciting that they think it's important! And the focus was about
not losing that percentage of business, which I thought was awesome.
Ok enough rambling.
~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
In the Center of the Roof
http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/
On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Patrick Burke wrote:
> Hi Randi,
>
> The house anser would be:
>
> WAVE Toolbar (Firefox add-on):
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6720
> Or online version:
> http://wave.webaim.org/
>
> Sounds like a great class!
> Patrick
>
> At 02:30 PM 11/8/2010, Ro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My friend is taking an M.I.S. class at the University of Arizona, and
>> they are building a website. They just found out today that 20% of
>> their grade will be accessibility. Of course my friend is excited
>> because she'll have me as a tester haha. But I'm curious about
>> whatever program or site you all use that tests for accessiblity?
>> I've
>> seen it mentioned here, but can't remember what it is.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Oh yeah, I'm really excited at the emphasis they put on
>> accessibility.
>> She said the professor even talked about the percentage of the
>> population they'd be alienating if their site wasn't accessible. I'll
>> be sending her to WebAIM for pointers. ;)
>>
>> ~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
>>
>> One Day at a Time
>
>
From: Terrill Bennett
Date: Tue, Nov 09 2010 8:30AM
Subject: Re: Accessibility testing program?
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I have a small list of 19 online tools, browser plug-ins, etc (all
links validated an hour ago):
http://bennett1.org/j15/accessibility/accessibility-links
While automated tools are great, the ultimate accessibility tests
(as-in more than one) should be real humans, using real assistive
technology. Perhaps those who oversee the UA website can put you in
contact with the appropriate testers or other students in your area:
The UA Website "About" page with contacts and other links:
http://www.arizona.edu/website
UA Web Developer Group (you might want to join?):
http://uaweb.arizona.edu/
You may want to consider learning how to use a screen reader,
yourself. While you may not become proficient, it will give you an
idea during development of how your changes are working. NVDA is
free. There's a "portable" version that does NOT install anything on
your PC - if you're using a computer on which you don't have
authority to install software, all you need to do is create a
directory, run the download to extract NVDA, and execute nvda.exe:
http://www.nvda-project.org/
Hope this helps.
-- Terrill --
From: Ro
Date: Tue, Nov 09 2010 12:42PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility testing program?
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Oh thanks for all the great info. I'll pass that along. For now she's
got me to test with Mac and my friends to test for Jaws, but I'm sure
she's eventually gonna want to learn herself. She's just beginning all
this. Thanks again!
~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
Its an adventure, said Fred.
On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Terrill Bennett wrote:
> I have a small list of 19 online tools, browser plug-ins, etc (all
> links validated an hour ago):
> http://bennett1.org/j15/accessibility/accessibility-links
>
> While automated tools are great, the ultimate accessibility tests
> (as-in more than one) should be real humans, using real assistive
> technology. Perhaps those who oversee the UA website can put you in
> contact with the appropriate testers or other students in your area:
>
> The UA Website "About" page with contacts and other links:
> http://www.arizona.edu/website
>
> UA Web Developer Group (you might want to join?):
> http://uaweb.arizona.edu/
>
> You may want to consider learning how to use a screen reader,
> yourself. While you may not become proficient, it will give you an
> idea during development of how your changes are working. NVDA is
> free. There's a "portable" version that does NOT install anything on
> your PC - if you're using a computer on which you don't have
> authority to install software, all you need to do is create a
> directory, run the download to extract NVDA, and execute nvda.exe:
>
> http://www.nvda-project.org/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -- Terrill --
>
>