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From: Jim Allan
Date: Tue, Oct 04 2016 1:31PM
Subject: accessibility tester for development environment.
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Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a development
environment?

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Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964

From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Tue, Oct 04 2016 1:34PM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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You can use the WAVE plug-in with Chrome to do page by page automated checks in a development environment. If you are using Drupal CMS I believe that there are plug-ins that will allow you to do the same but on a multipage scale. At least that is what my developers tell me. We are currently exploring that option.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)

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Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.

Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a development environment?

--
Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964

From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2016 12:19AM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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Hi Mike,
I think Jim is looking for a tool that does a bit differently. Even I'm
looking for similar. Is there any tool that actually could trigger
accessibility issues real-time as the code being written. For e.g. if I
write something like <img src=.../image.jpg"> and move to the next node, I
should receive a flag stating <img> element is missing "alt" attribute.

Is there anything that could help developers on the fly?
Thanks,
Vasu

Regards,

Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/
Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://serveominclusion.com

Let's create an inclusive web!

Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica
Hon. Joint Secretary, The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka
Branch

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> You can use the WAVE plug-in with Chrome to do page by page automated
> checks in a development environment. If you are using Drupal CMS I believe
> that there are plug-ins that will allow you to do the same but on a
> multipage scale. At least that is what my developers tell me. We are
> currently exploring that option.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Allan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Cc: Scott Brackett < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.
>
> Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a development
> environment?
>
> --
> Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
> voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
> "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >

From: JP Jamous
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2016 6:44AM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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The only one I know about is Visual Studio .NET. It lists errors and warnings when you perform an accessibility check.

I used it in VS .NET 2010 and it was pretty cool. I have not tested in in 2015 community edition, but I would assume it is still as good.

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:19 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.

Hi Mike,
I think Jim is looking for a tool that does a bit differently. Even I'm looking for similar. Is there any tool that actually could trigger accessibility issues real-time as the code being written. For e.g. if I write something like <img src=.../image.jpg"> and move to the next node, I should receive a flag stating <img> element is missing "alt" attribute.

Is there anything that could help developers on the fly?
Thanks,
Vasu

Regards,

Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Twitter: http://twitter.com/CSrinivasu/
Website: http://www.srinivasu.org | http://serveominclusion.com

Let's create an inclusive web!

Lead Accessibility Consultant, Informatica Hon. Joint Secretary, The National Association for the Blind, Karnataka Branch

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> You can use the WAVE plug-in with Chrome to do page by page automated
> checks in a development environment. If you are using Drupal CMS I
> believe that there are plug-ins that will allow you to do the same but
> on a multipage scale. At least that is what my developers tell me. We
> are currently exploring that option.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Allan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Cc: Scott Brackett < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.
>
> Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a
> development environment?
>
> --
> Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
> voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
> "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >

From: Scott Brackett
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2016 10:13AM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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I am very interested in a tool that integrates with an IDE and offers help
at time of writing code. Like JSLINT, or Visual Studio Intellisense but
for accessible HTML, as Vasu mentioned.

Based on what JP said, I did some searching and there is good news for
Microsoft developers. I found this blog article published May 2nd of this
year: Building Accessible websites just got a lot easier: Web Accessibilty
Checker
<https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/02/building-accessible-websites-just-got-a-lot-easier/>

I'm adding it to my VS2015 install now to take it for a spin.

Thanks,

Scott Brackett
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

From: JP Jamous
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2016 1:15PM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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One of the reasons why I like Visual Studio .NET and with the Community edition, you got plenty to work with under one IDE.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 11:13 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.

I am very interested in a tool that integrates with an IDE and offers help at time of writing code. Like JSLINT, or Visual Studio Intellisense but for accessible HTML, as Vasu mentioned.

Based on what JP said, I did some searching and there is good news for Microsoft developers. I found this blog article published May 2nd of this
year: Building Accessible websites just got a lot easier: Web Accessibilty Checker <https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/02/building-accessible-websites-just-got-a-lot-easier/>

I'm adding it to my VS2015 install now to take it for a spin.

Thanks,

Scott Brackett
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

From: Maraikayar Prem Nawaz
Date: Wed, Oct 05 2016 10:50PM
Subject: Re: accessibility tester for development environment.
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I'm not sure about accessibility checker plugin . But Auto completion
plugins for Aria attributes are available for sublime IDE (
https://github.com/Yago/ST3-Accessibility) and for webstorm.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> You can use the WAVE plug-in with Chrome to do page by page automated
> checks in a development environment. If you are using Drupal CMS I believe
> that there are plug-ins that will allow you to do the same but on a
> multipage scale. At least that is what my developers tell me. We are
> currently exploring that option.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Allan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Cc: Scott Brackett < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.
>
> Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a development
> environment?
>
> --
> Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
> voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
> "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> You can use the WAVE plug-in with Chrome to do page by page automated
> checks in a development environment. If you are using Drupal CMS I believe
> that there are plug-ins that will allow you to do the same but on a
> multipage scale. At least that is what my developers tell me. We are
> currently exploring that option.
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On
> Behalf Of Jim Allan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:32 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Cc: Scott Brackett < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Subject: [WebAIM] accessibility tester for development environment.
>
> Is there an accessibility checker plugin for html within a development
> environment?
>
> --
> Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
> voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/
> "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >