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From: Michael Burks
Date: Wed, Mar 12 2003 6:52PM
Subject: A New Accessibility Testing Tool
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All,

There is a new test tool being worked on called Cynthia(tm). It may be
of interest to you. It is located at: http://cynthia.contentquality.com/

It is being developed jointly by HiSoftware, ICDRI and The Internet
Society Disability Chapter. Please give it a try and let us know what
you think, and what problems you encounter. Please send comments,
suggestions, and problem descriptions to = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =

"Cynthia" is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is
designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards
and the W3C WCAG guidelines. It is also designed to educate web site
developers in the development of Web Based content so that is accessible
to all. This online test only validates one page at a time. Note this
demo will test about one (1) page per minute / per site.

The goal of this service is to provide a free, well supported,
accessibility validation tester for those who need to test a page; to
educate the tester about the underlying technology behind accessiblity,
the benefits of using a validator, and to promote accessible web design.


It is currently available in English and will soon be available in
Spanish


Sincerely,

Mike Burks


Sincerely,

Mike Burks


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From: Holly Marie
Date: Thu, Mar 13 2003 11:01AM
Subject: Re: A New Accessibility Testing Tool
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From: "Michael Burks" >
> There is a new test tool being worked on called Cynthia(tm). It may
be
> of interest to you. It is located at:
http://cynthia.contentquality.com/
>
> It is being developed jointly by HiSoftware, ICDRI and The Internet
> Society Disability Chapter. Please give it a try and let us know what
> you think, and what problems you encounter. Please send comments,
> suggestions, and problem descriptions to = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =

It looks like a very useful tool Michael.
Clear and easy to follow. I have not quite figured out a few things just
yet, but I will try and find some more information on those items.


I noticed one odd spot on the WCAG test and I set it to test for all 3
Levels.
A page I loaded in, indeed had a linked external style sheet, though it
reported that styles were not used either inline, external, or styled
headers.?

This might be a bug, and the page I tested was xhtml strict with
external linking
noted, thusly...
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" />

And the top of the page did have the prologue line ...
and the strict DTD notation...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

this may or may not be a problem or trigger. One other difference or
possibility... my title had some
&middot; characters listed in the name.

still testing the checker or tool out, and I am not sure what the
difference between cynthia 1.0 mode and all the separate browser
versions are just yet. Though I will see how those work.

Holly

P.S. was this named after Cynthia Waddell ? just curious.




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From: chris
Date: Thu, Mar 13 2003 3:21PM
Subject: Double posts
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Hi,
Is anyone else receiving each message twice?


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From: Sarah Brainard
Date: Thu, Mar 13 2003 3:32PM
Subject: Re: Double posts
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> Hi,
> Is anyone else receiving each message twice?

I am not today, but I did for a while last week.

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From: chris
Date: Thu, Mar 13 2003 9:16PM
Subject: Charsets and accessibility
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Is it recommended to use utf-8 or iso-8859-1? Are there any reasons from an
accessibility perspective that one might be preferred over the other?

I'm not quite sure why I got a wild hair over charsets, but I can't find an
answer anywhere.

- chris


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