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From: Alice Anderson
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 3:10PM
Subject: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?
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WebAIM list,
Our campus recently developed a "revised" web accessibility policy
that is based on
section 508. Can anyone recommend any validation and/or repair
tools on the market?
Does anyone have any experiences with tools that are not to be recommended
for 508?
Thanks to all,
Alice Anderson
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Alice Anderson, Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Learning
Technology & Distance Education (LTDE)
Learning Technology Initiatives Coordinator,
http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/menus/events.htm
Technology Access Program Coordinator,
http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/tech_access/index.htm
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1307 University Avenue Street,
Madison, WI 53706
Phone 608-262-2129, Fax 608-262-0123

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From: Prof Norm Coombs
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 3:27PM
Subject: Re: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?
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A-prompt is one of the best repair tools available, and it is free. At the
end of the day an intelligent, knowledgeable human being is the best repair
tool, but it doesn't come cheap.
EASI has a webcast interview right now with the producers of a-prompt. Go
to http://easi.cc and pick site index and then the link to the a-prompt
webcast.
Norman
At 04:15 PM 10/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>WebAIM list,
>Our campus recently developed a "revised" web accessibility policy
>that is based on
>section 508. Can anyone recommend any validation and/or repair
>tools on the market?
>
>Does anyone have any experiences with tools that are not to be recommended
>for 508?
>
>Thanks to all,
>Alice Anderson
>--
>
>Alice Anderson, Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Learning
>Technology & Distance Education (LTDE)
>Learning Technology Initiatives Coordinator,
>http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/menus/events.htm
>Technology Access Program Coordinator,
>http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/tech_access/index.htm
>University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1307 University Avenue Street,
>Madison, WI 53706
>Phone 608-262-2129, Fax 608-262-0123
>
>
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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 4:43PM
Subject: Re: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?
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At 02:17 PM 10/22/2001 , Prof Norm Coombs wrote:
>A-prompt is one of the best repair tools available, and it is free. At the
>end of the day an intelligent, knowledgeable human being is the best repair
>tool, but it doesn't come cheap.
I agree that A-prompt is good -- and I strongly second the comment
about a "knowledgeable human being." For all the good that tools
can do, they only work if the person running them knows what she's
doing.
How do you get to know what you're doing? Easiest way, I think, is
to take one of the courses available -- such as EASI's, WebAIM's, or
HWG/IWA's. Consider this a plug for me, Norm, and Paul. ;) Hey, I
am not _completely_ self-serving here.
--Kynn
PS: Has anyone taken the WOW accessibility course?
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Technical Developer Liaison, Reef http://www.reef.com/
Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/
Online Instructor, Accessible Web Design http://kynn.com/+d201

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From: Mark Rew
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 5:30AM
Subject: Re: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?
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Alice,
You're welcome to look at a guide I wrote for our agency on Section 508 tools
at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/cio/htm/section508_web_tools_guide.htm
Mark Rew
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?

> WebAIM list,
> Our campus recently developed a "revised" web accessibility policy
> that is based on
> section 508. Can anyone recommend any validation and/or repair
> tools on the market?
>
> Does anyone have any experiences with tools that are not to be recommended
> for 508?
>
> Thanks to all,
> Alice Anderson
> --
>
> Alice Anderson, Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Learning
> Technology & Distance Education (LTDE)
> Learning Technology Initiatives Coordinator,
> http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/menus/events.htm
> Technology Access Program Coordinator,
> http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/tech_access/index.htm
> University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1307 University Avenue Street,
> Madison, WI 53706
> Phone 608-262-2129, Fax 608-262-0123
>
>
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From: Kilcommons, Cath
Date: Mon, Oct 22 2001 9:23AM
Subject: Re: any recommendations for 508 validation and/or repair tools?
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Of course, I agree that knowing the material involved and making
knowledgable decisions is key to making sure that a page is 508
Accessible. So many aspects are discretionary anyway.

That being said, we also have revised our web access policies.
DreamWeaver has been adopted as the campus standard, so we are teaching
our campus to use the 508 Accessibility download (use it early and
often, we say). So far, there have been adequate responses, but I am
not enamored of the product. Some of our people are using the
Accessibility check, then checking against downloadable Bobby (the
Priority 1 section of the report) and manually checking of 508 items
m,n,o,p.

A-prompt is an excellent tool which is obvious enough to the computer
savvy, and we recommend it to such individuals that can handle it, but
it would throw a lot of our WYSIWYG designer for a loop.

The best and most revealing test is the user of AT checking pages for
us. We have been lucky to have an excellent student (who has very
limited vision) on our Web Access committee, and major pages that have
gone through overhaul are checked by her in tandem with another
committee member. What that has revealed has been amazing! Things
that you would never suspect have been ameliorated that way!

Best of luck.
Regards,
Cath

Cath Stager- Kilcommons
Assistive Technology Support and
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Assistive Technology Resource Center
Colorado State University
970-491-6258
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