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From: TX Knight
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 1:18PM
Subject: WAVE replacement?
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Hi all,
Does anyone have a suggestion for a replacement we can use for WAVE?
I just learned recently learned that WebAIM no longer provides their WAVE
tool for FireFox, Now they only provide it as online service or as an
extension for Chrome.
Unfortunately, my agency can't use the online version (we're behind a
firewall). And Chrome is also out of the question for various reasons.
Is there a tool/plugin we can use that is available to Internet Explorer or
FireFox?
Thanks in advance,
Sam
--
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
~Lewis Carroll
From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 1:24PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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In Firefox I like AInspector Sidebar<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ainspector-sidebar/> and aXe Dev Tool<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/axe-devtools/?src=api>
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ainspector-sidebar/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/axe-devtools/?src=api
Joseph
From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 1:36PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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Jared, have y'all worked out a way to license WAVE to sit on a local server?
Sounds like there's a demand for it…
Cliff Tyllick
Accessibility Specialist
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
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> On Feb 4, 2016, at 2:18 PM, TX Knight < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a replacement we can use for WAVE?
>
> I just learned recently learned that WebAIM no longer provides their WAVE
> tool for FireFox, Now they only provide it as online service or as an
> extension for Chrome.
>
> Unfortunately, my agency can't use the online version (we're behind a
> firewall). And Chrome is also out of the question for various reasons.
>
> Is there a tool/plugin we can use that is available to Internet Explorer or
> FireFox?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sam
> --
> "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
> and those who matter don't mind."
> ~Dr. Seuss
>
> "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
> ~Lewis Carroll
> > > >
From: Jared Smith
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 1:43PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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TX Knight wrote:
> I just learned recently learned that WebAIM no longer provides their WAVE
> tool for FireFox
More accurately, an unfixed bug in Firefox prohibits us from providing
or updating the WAVE extension for Firefox. We would provide the
add-on if Firefox supported it.
However, we are looking into the new Firefox add-on APIs. As soon as
they support the functionality required for WAVE to work, we will
certainly be releasing an updated version.
We do license a stand-alone version of WAVE that can be installed
locally. So long as the machine it is installed on can access the
pages to be evaluated, then this may be a possibility for you. It
does, however, like our online version, have some limitations that are
not present in the browser extension.
Jared Smith
WebAIM.org
From: Sarah Horton
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 2:11PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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Jared, great to hear WAVE in Firefox might come back â I miss it! Is there anything we can do as a community to get the needed functionality in place?
Sarah Horton
UX Strategy Lead
The Paciello Group
603 252-6052 mobile
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Jared Smith < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> TX Knight wrote:
>
>> I just learned recently learned that WebAIM no longer provides their WAVE
>> tool for FireFox
>
> More accurately, an unfixed bug in Firefox prohibits us from providing
> or updating the WAVE extension for Firefox. We would provide the
> add-on if Firefox supported it.
>
> However, we are looking into the new Firefox add-on APIs. As soon as
> they support the functionality required for WAVE to work, we will
> certainly be releasing an updated version.
>
> We do license a stand-alone version of WAVE that can be installed
> locally. So long as the machine it is installed on can access the
> pages to be evaluated, then this may be a possibility for you. It
> does, however, like our online version, have some limitations that are
> not present in the browser extension.
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM.org
> > > >
From: Jared Smith
Date: Thu, Feb 04 2016 2:44PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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Sarah Horton wrote:
>Is there anything we can do as a community to get the needed functionality in place?
Not at this point. The Firefox add-on system is moving to a superset
of the APIs currently supported by Chrome. Because the extension
already works in Chrome, it's just a matter of testing and ensuring
that Firefox supports the right APIs. We're in communication with the
Mozilla team that is adding this functionality. We're starting testing
now to see how close they are to supporting what we need, but after
two years of frustration with Mozilla's lack of interest in fixing the
critical bug, we may now be on track for a near-future port of the
Chrome extension to Firefox.
Jared
From: Carolyn Dudas
Date: Fri, Feb 05 2016 9:11AM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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What about FAE (http://fae20.cita.illinois.edu/)?
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From: TX Knight
Date: Mon, Feb 08 2016 12:21PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'm going to test them out and see if
we can use them.
--
My Website: http://www.samssecretlab.com/
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
~Lewis Carroll
From: Paul Bohman
Date: Mon, Feb 08 2016 1:02PM
Subject: Re: WAVE replacement?
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You could also check out the open source aXe web accessibility browser
extension for Firefox (and Chrome)
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/axe-devtools/
- Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd?hl=en-US
Paul Bohman, PhD
Director of Training, Deque Systems, Inc
703-225-0380, ext.121
https://DequeUniversity.com
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:21 PM, TX Knight < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'm going to test them out and see if
> we can use them.
> --
>
> My Website: http://www.samssecretlab.com/
>
> "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
> and those who matter don't mind."
> ~Dr. Seuss
>
> "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
> ~Lewis Carroll
> > > > >