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From: chagnon
Date: Fri, Jun 24 2022 12:05AM
Subject: Website evaluations
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Looking for guidance on having a website evaluated for accessibility
compliance.
Any suggestions for vendors you recommend, things to consider, or general
advice is welcome!
-Bevi
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From: Paul Rayius
Date: Fri, Jun 24 2022 5:32AM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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Hi Bevi,
I'd recommend Accessible360. Here is their website: https://accessible360.com/.
Best,
Paul
Paul Rayius
Vice-President of Training
CommonLook
From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sat, Jun 25 2022 7:39AM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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The general strategy is definitely a combination of an automated site
crawler scan (a scan that crawls the site and scans every page) ad a
manual accessiblity assessment of key pages and component
Pages:
The HomePage
Contact Us page
Search page (if there is one)
Landing pages for key categories
One page per categry or template (say articles, blogs)
Components:
Any components used consistently across the site
* Head/footer
* Any navigation menus or modal popups used consistently
* Check for videos and any online media player (make sure those are
accessible and support closed captions and ideally audio description)
The automated scan can be done monthly (it's quick and, depending on
what you choose, can be inexpensive)
Manual assessments of key pages should be done quarterly (or less,
depending on how often your site is updated).
Here are two options, depending on budget
Wav'es Accessibility I'm back service
https://wave.webaim.org/aim/
(site scan + manual assessment of 4 pages for $500).
You may have to supplement with assessment of more pages and components.
If you want the lowest cost DIY possible:
Axe crawler (opensource):
https://github.com/tjscollins/axe-crawler
(open source, runs Axe on every page), + you'd have to conduct manual
reviews yourself or hire someone to do it.
All the big vendors, Deque/Level Access/TPGI offer some form of these
services at various price point.
I've heard good things about Accessibility 360, but I've never used
them directly.
On 6/24/22, Paul Rayius < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Bevi,
> I'd recommend Accessible360. Here is their website:
> https://accessible360.com/.
> Best,
> Paul
>
> Paul Rayius
> Vice-President of Training
> CommonLook
>
>
From: Peter Shikli
Date: Sat, Jun 25 2022 3:09PM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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Bev,
If you're dealing with a website with more than a few hundred pages, I
would find an accessibility service provider with a firm grasp of
WCAG-EM. That is a structured methodology to select the few pages to
audit instead of paying for all of them to be audited. The cost savings
can be significant.
After you get a sense of the vendor's credentials and experience, insist
on a fixed-price, fixed-schedule bid to help bring you into compliance
with ADA via a perpetual, unconditional warranty. Get an hourly rate to
cover whatever turns out wasn't part of their bid. Don't be shy about
comparing that across domestic vendors.
If you have online documents like PDFs and/or videos, make sure the
vendor has experience with those too, and the proposal covers your
entire online presence. If you'd like a proposal from us, give me a
call or an email.
Cheers,
Peter Shikli
Access2online Inc.
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Cell: 949-677-3705
FAX: 503-582-8337
www.access2online.com
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From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Tue, Jun 28 2022 11:55AM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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Supplementary:
If I am asked before evaluation and generally in my evaluation report I suggest:
1. Care about your code by html validation. Each technician should know about https://validator.w3.org/ an know about solving announced errors or warnings. It is annoying to report the small once one techs.
2. Put away your mouse and then try out to use your navigation and forms. That is not black pedagogy, that is reminding of craft.
Hardly any keyboard and focus failure, audio and video SC can be found with tools or manual testing. So e have to extend responsibility to authors.
Wolfgang
From: Steve Green
Date: Tue, Jun 28 2022 12:21PM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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Wolfgang, unless I am misunderstanding, you are saying that manual testing cannot find non-conformances with the success criteria for keyboard and focus failure, audio and video. Manual testing can find all non-conformances relating to those success criteria. Why do you think it can't?
Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd
From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Wed, Jun 29 2022 8:49AM
Subject: Re: Website evaluations
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Steve, I was not formulating precisely. Sorry! I try to clarify.
What I meant:
It is hard to find EACH keyboard and focus, audio and video failure with tools or by manual testing. So we have to extend responsibility to authors.
Does this make sense to you now?