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From: Karen Sorensen
Date: Mon, Sep 24 2012 10:16PM
Subject: Plans to make WAVE more robust?
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Hi - Are there any plans to make the WAVE toolbar able to check the
accessibility of more than one page at a time? I'm looking for something
like WAVE to do accessibility checks of whole online courses in our LMS
(Desire2Learn) at a time. But all the enterprise-level testing tools I look
at are so much more than I want. They check all sorts of things in addition
to accessibility. And so far I haven't found a tool or reporting interface
that was as easy to use as WAVE. Does anyone have any suggestions on a
robust (multiple page checks at a time) accessibility testing tool they
like that would work in an environment that requires a log-in?

thanks!

Karen M. Sorensen
Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses
www.pcc.edu/access
Portland Community College
971-722-4720

From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Sep 25 2012 11:50AM
Subject: Re: Plans to make WAVE more robust?
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Karen-

We'll be rolling out an updated version of WAVE in the near future.
(Yeah, I know we've been saying this forever.) A new toolbar is also
in the works.

The power of WAVE is in it's ability to provide inline feedback on a
page-by-page basis. Simply collecting number of errors has limited
usefulness, though we know it can be valuable for monitoring progress.
We don't have immediate plans for a toolbar that will evaluate
multiple pages at a time. However, we will soon be rolling out an API
that will allow users to collect WAVE data on any number of web pages
- you send us the URL or file, and we'll send back the WAVE data on
errors, alert, features, etc. More enterprise-level tools are on our
roadmap.

Stay tuned.

Jared

From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Tue, Sep 25 2012 1:14PM
Subject: Re: Plans to make WAVE more robust?
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Any chance that it will be robust enough to evaluate, javascript/jquery
and AJAX accessiblity?

Thank you
Nancy Johnson

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Jared Smith < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> Karen-
>
> We'll be rolling out an updated version of WAVE in the near future.
> (Yeah, I know we've been saying this forever.) A new toolbar is also
> in the works.
>
> The power of WAVE is in it's ability to provide inline feedback on a
> page-by-page basis. Simply collecting number of errors has limited
> usefulness, though we know it can be valuable for monitoring progress.
> We don't have immediate plans for a toolbar that will evaluate
> multiple pages at a time. However, we will soon be rolling out an API
> that will allow users to collect WAVE data on any number of web pages
> - you send us the URL or file, and we'll send back the WAVE data on
> errors, alert, features, etc. More enterprise-level tools are on our
> roadmap.
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> Jared
> > > >

From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Sep 25 2012 1:34PM
Subject: Re: Plans to make WAVE more robust?
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Nancy Johnson wrote:
> Any chance that it will be robust enough to evaluate, javascript/jquery
> and AJAX accessiblity?

JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX are pretty complicated things, and no
automated tool could ever possibly fully evaluate them for
accessibility. But the toolbar evaluates the accessibility of page
content after scripting has been applied, so it allows very accurate
evaluation of the actual end user experience. We've added some new
logic to identify accessibility issues that are commonly introduced by
scripting, as well as some new tests for ARIA, HTML5, etc. We hope
WAVE will make evaluation of these types of content much easier.

Jared