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From: England, Kristina
Date: Fri, Sep 16 2016 9:17AM
Subject: Website Quality Assurance Suites with Accessibility Component
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Hi everyone,

We are currently looking at Website Quality Assurance Suites that provide spell check, seo, branding, and accessibility reports. The important part for my team is the Accessibility report. We use a free browser plug-in for accessibility testing currently as the plug-in allows us not only to test against public facing websites but also our portals and backend systems (student mobile apps, peoplesoft, etc.). We've taken a look at one well known suite, but unfortunately the suite can only test against public facing sites. If anyone knows of an "all-in-one" suite for website quality assurance that can work with both public sites and portals, please email me at = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = <mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > so we can reach out to the vendor for a demo.

Thanks so much!


Kristina England, Communications Specialist, PMP
Strategy, Research, and Communications
University Information Technology Services (UITS)
University of Massachusetts Office of the President
774-455-7874
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From: Jim Homme
Date: Fri, Sep 16 2016 9:22AM
Subject: Re: Website Quality Assurance Suites with AccessibilityComponent
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Hi Kristina,
What is the tool you currently use?

Thanks.

Jim


=========Jim Homme,
Accessibility Consultant,
Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
412-787-8567,
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http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
E+R=O

From: England, Kristina
Date: Fri, Sep 16 2016 9:27AM
Subject: Re: Website Quality Assurance Suites withAccessibilityComponent
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Hey Jim,

We currently use AInspector.

Kristina

From: Jim Homme
Date: Fri, Sep 16 2016 9:45AM
Subject: Re: Website Quality Assurance SuiteswithAccessibilityComponent
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Hi Christina,
I had very little success trying to use that tool with a screen reader. I keep looking for tools like this that I can use effectively.

Thanks.

Jim


=========Jim Homme,
Accessibility Consultant,
Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
412-787-8567,
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
E+R=O

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Fri, Sep 16 2016 12:57PM
Subject: Re: Website Quality Assurance Suites with Accessibility Component
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Jim
The aXe Firefox plug-in from Deque is pretty easy to use with a screen reader.
http://www.deque.com/products/axe/
When I was with Deque I wrote a guide on using FireEyes II with Jaws
(aXe is a subset of FireEyes II, same instructions minus the ability
to switch between rule sets and export the results):
https://dequeuniversity.com/guide/fireeyes-ii/1.1/introduction/jaws

I know people have been able to use Wave with Chrome, but personally I
have never had success doing it.
I loved Wave for Firefox but sadly I don't think another plug-in is
forthcoming (and I would be happy is someone proved me wrong on this).

As for the original question. The only tool I know off that does SEO
as well as accessibility is Siteimprove
But I have not tested the qulity of their accessibility testing nor do
I know whether it works behind a firewall (I would assume it does,
given the nature of the software).
Good luck.
-Birkir



On 9/16/16, Jim Homme < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Christina,
> I had very little success trying to use that tool with a screen reader. I
> keep looking for tools like this that I can use effectively.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
> =========> Jim Homme,
> Accessibility Consultant,
> Bender HighTest Accessibility Team
> Bender Consulting Services, Inc.,
> 412-787-8567,
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> http://www.benderconsult.com/our%20services/hightest-accessible-technology-solutions
> E+R=O
>
>