E-mail List Archives

Search E-mail List Archives for

Number of posts in this thread: 3 (In chronological order)

From: Paul Collins
Date: Fri, Nov 18 2005 4:20AM
Subject: Best automated Accessibility evaluation tool
No previous message | Next message →

Looking at Accessibility evaluation software, could anyone recommend the best tool for all-round evaluation?

And yes, I will be doing human testing also!

Thanks,
Paul

From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Fri, Nov 18 2005 6:20AM
Subject: Best automated Accessibility evaluation tool
← Previous message | Next message →

Paul Collins wrote:
> Looking at Accessibility evaluation software, could anyone recommend
> the best tool for all-round evaluation?
>
> And yes, I will be doing human testing also!
>
> Thanks,
> Paul

Paul,

While I must clearly state my bias up front (I am an unpaid Board
Advisor to this company), I continue to whole-heartedly recommend
AccVerify by hisoftware.

I have had the opportunity to evaluate and use many of the other
applications in the marketplace, and for ease of use, accuracy of
reports, flexibility, scalability and customization AccVerify beats them
all (IMHO)

Hope this helps.

JF
--
John Foliot = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Web Accessibility Specialist / Co-founder of WATS.ca
Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca
Phone: 1-613-482-7053

From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Fri, Nov 18 2005 7:00AM
Subject: RE: Best automated Accessibility evaluation tool
← Previous message | No next message

> Paul Collins

> Looking at Accessibility evaluation software, could anyone
> recommend the best tool for all-round evaluation?

I've recently discovered (and fell in love with) the standalone
version of TAW3
http://accessify.com/2005/11/taw3-free-accessibility-testing-and.php

It does validation against WCAG 1.0 (and you can select exactly
which checkpoints to validate against, if need be), assists enormously
during the manual checking phase (creating custom views of the currently
evaluated page that should facilitate the human tester's job, plus
a way to keep track of manual test results) and can generate nice
reports in HTML and even EARL.

...and you can also let it spider a site (with customisable depth levels).

For a free tool, it's amazingly impressive.

Patrick
________________________________
Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
________________________________
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
http://webstandards.org/
________________________________