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From: Mark Guisinger
Date: Mon, Feb 24 2014 1:54PM
Subject: Tools to scan websites made using CGI
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I was hoping someone might be able to point me to a tool I can use to help automate Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 codes scanning of a website made using CGI.

Thanks,
Mark Guisinger

From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Tue, Feb 25 2014 7:02AM
Subject: Re: Tools to scan websites made using CGI
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Mark,

The WebAIM WAVE toolbar tests against pages as rendered: http://wave.webaim.org/

If you are looking for a tool that can crawl and run across a whole site in that mode and generate reports, let me know what you find.

sb
Sarah E. Bourne
Director of Assistive Technology
Information Technology Division
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
617-626-4502
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http://www.mass.gov/itd

From: Cameron Cundiff
Date: Tue, Feb 25 2014 7:44AM
Subject: Re: Tools to scan websites made using CGI
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Hi Mark,

Take a look at capybara-accessible. You can write an script that starts an
automated browser to visit pages, click links, interact with forms, and
target specific elements. Whenever the browser get a message to click a
link or visit a page, it runs accessibility assertions and will stop and
print a report when it finds an error.

Crawling is a brittle mechanism for testing pages that have form
interaction, which is part of the reason Case Commons built the tool.

The scripting language uses Capybara:
https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara#the-dsl
capybara-accessible is on ruby gems:
https://github.com/casecommons/capybara-accessible

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) <
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> Mark,
>
> The WebAIM WAVE toolbar tests against pages as rendered:
> http://wave.webaim.org/
>
> If you are looking for a tool that can crawl and run across a whole site
> in that mode and generate reports, let me know what you find.
>
> sb
> Sarah E. Bourne
> Director of Assistive Technology
> Information Technology Division
> Commonwealth of Massachusetts
> 1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
> 617-626-4502
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> http://www.mass.gov/itd
>
>
>

From: Druckman,Geri
Date: Tue, Feb 25 2014 8:56AM
Subject: Re: Tools to scan websites made using CGI
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Hi Mark,

As Sarah mentioned, there is Wave by WebAIM. I also use another free
browser add-on called Code Sniffer by SquizLabs
http://www.squizlabs.com/general/html-codesniffer though it scans only one
page at a time.

To crawl a whole site, where you can set the number of pages, the depth of
links down your site navigation tree (e.g., three levels down: HomePage >>
About >> Staff) etc. I use WorldSpace by Deque:
http://www.deque.com/products/worldspace/ it also has a browser plug-in
and FireBug add-on called FireEyes, and works pretty well, though not a
free tool. One of the nice things about it, is that you can generate
reports with WorldSpace, and load individual issues to your browser into
FireEyes, per page. Or push back from the browser to WorldSpace as you
find new issues, or solve any.

Cheers,

Geri Druckman
Web Development Specialist - Accessibility
Department of Internet Services
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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T 713-792-6293 | F 713-745-8134

On 2/25/14 8:44 AM, "Cameron Cundiff" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

>Hi Mark,
>
>Take a look at capybara-accessible. You can write an script that starts an
>automated browser to visit pages, click links, interact with forms, and
>target specific elements. Whenever the browser get a message to click a
>link or visit a page, it runs accessibility assertions and will stop and
>print a report when it finds an error.
>
>Crawling is a brittle mechanism for testing pages that have form
>interaction, which is part of the reason Case Commons built the tool.
>
>The scripting language uses Capybara:
>https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara#the-dsl
>capybara-accessible is on ruby gems:
>https://github.com/casecommons/capybara-accessible
>
>
>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) <
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> The WebAIM WAVE toolbar tests against pages as rendered:
>> http://wave.webaim.org/
>>
>> If you are looking for a tool that can crawl and run across a whole site
>> in that mode and generate reports, let me know what you find.
>>
>> sb
>> Sarah E. Bourne
>> Director of Assistive Technology
>> Information Technology Division
>> Commonwealth of Massachusetts
>> 1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
>> 617-626-4502
>> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> http://www.mass.gov/itd
>>
>>
>>