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Posted by Jeremy on September 21, 2004, 9:29 pm
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Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
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jeremy
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Posted by David Dorward on September 21, 2004, 11:51 pm
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Jeremy wrote:
> Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html seems reasonable, but it should be
noted that accessibility is not something that can be easily measured by a
machine, many checkpoints need the human touch. No tool can currently[1]
replace a stong understanding of the issues involved.
[1] and won't until we develop really really good AIs.
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Posted by Jeremy on September 22, 2004, 8:44 am
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> Jeremy wrote:
>
> > Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> > that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
>
> http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html seems reasonable, but it should be
> noted that accessibility is not something that can be easily measured by a
> machine, many checkpoints need the human touch. No tool can currently[1]
> replace a stong understanding of the issues involved.
>
> [1] and won't until we develop really really good AIs.
>
>
Thanks - it is quite a useful checker and it does layout the results
nicely.
cheers
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jeremy
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Posted by Chris Morris on September 22, 2004, 12:53 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tools/
(should be) a fairly good list of 'automatic', semi-automatic and
manual tools.
Make sure you read http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/acctools.html
before using anything 'automatic'.
If I had to recommend *one* tool it'd be Opera 7. If I had to
recommend one *automatic* tool it'd be AccessValet for general purpose
or Vischeck for good quality semi-automatic checking.
What I'd *really* recommend is that you read around the accessibility
(and usability, and good authoring practice) literature and learn to
check things using only the power of your mind. Collected links
(desperately in need of categorisation, sorting, etc) at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/resources/
There's a quick accessibility tutorial at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tutorial/
which you could practice using various tools on. It's no better than
any other generally inaccessible set of pages for this, except that
the answers are also available.
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Chris
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Posted by Jeremy on September 22, 2004, 1:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options > > Hi, can anyone make any receommendations for a (free preferably!) tool
> > that will assess the conformace to accessibility standards?
>
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tools/
> (should be) a fairly good list of 'automatic', semi-automatic and
> manual tools.
>
> Make sure you read http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/acctools.html
> before using anything 'automatic'.
>
> If I had to recommend *one* tool it'd be Opera 7. If I had to
> recommend one *automatic* tool it'd be AccessValet for general purpose
> or Vischeck for good quality semi-automatic checking.
>
> What I'd *really* recommend is that you read around the accessibility
> (and usability, and good authoring practice) literature and learn to
> check things using only the power of your mind. Collected links
> (desperately in need of categorisation, sorting, etc) at:
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/resources/
>
> There's a quick accessibility tutorial at:
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/its/services/web/accessibility/tutorial/
> which you could practice using various tools on. It's no better than
> any other generally inaccessible set of pages for this, except that
> the answers are also available.
>
>
Thanks for all this Chris, very helpful.
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jeremy
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