W3C List of Evaluation Tools

Dear Tool Vendor or Developer,


I actually sent you an email two days ago. I meant of course the tool 
"Media Access Generator (MAGpie)" and not the research project "Home 
Media Center". Therefor please reply to this message and neglect the old 
one. Thank you for in advance for your cooperation.


The W3C/WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) is 
currently in the process of updating the following list of Web 
accessibility evaluation tools on which your tool is listed:
   * <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools>

The new version of this tools list will provide sorting capabilities so 
that users are able to find tools according to their specific needs. The 
following static mock-ups show how this sortable list will look like:
   * <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/eval/tools/>

We are contacting you to help populate the database with current 
information about your tool. Below you will find information about your 
tool that is currently available to us. Please review this information, 
complete any missing fields or provide changes.

This information will be published unless we receive correction or 
amendments. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact
   * Yehya Mohamad <yehya.mohamad@fit.fraunhofer.de>
   * Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>


TOOL IDENTIFICATION:
* TOOL NAME: Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
* VENDOR NAME: CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
* HOME PAGE: http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
* RELEASE DATE: 2003-03-13
  (YYYY-MM-DD format)
* VERSION NUMBER: 1.0
* DESCRIPTION: (100 words maximum)
Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool 
for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. The 
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two 
such tools, version 1.0 and 2.01 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), 
for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media.

TOOL FEATURES:
(The following features are described in the document "Selecting Web 
Accessibility Evaluation Tools" available at 
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/selectingtools>)
* OVERALL FUNCTIONALITY
  - Accessible to people with disabilities: yes
  - Assist manual evaluation for accessibility:
  - Execute automated accessibility checks:
  - Provide semi-automated repair options:
  - Remote on-line service:
  - Other:

* USER INTERFACES
  - Generate reports: yes
  - In-page feedback:
  - Page transformations:
  - Step-by-step evaluations:
  - Other:

* LANGUAGES
  - English: yes
  - French:
  - German:
  - Italian:
  - Japanese:
  - Spanish:
  - Other:

* WEB TECHNOLOGIES
  - CSS, Cascading Style Sheets: yes
  - XHTML, Extensible Hypertext Markup Language: yes
  - HTML, Hypertext Markup Language: yes
  - PDF, Portable Document Format:
  - SVG, Scalabale Vector Grpahics:
  - Other:

* OPERATING SYSTEMS
  - BSD Unix:
  - Linux:
  - MacOS: yes
  - Solaris:
  - Windows: yes
  - Other:

* GUIDELINES
  - AccessiWeb, French national standard:
  - BITV, German national standard:
  - Section 508, US national standard:
  - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
  - Other:

* INTEGRATION INTO BROWSERS
  - Internet Explorer:
  - Mozilla:
  - Netscape:
  - Opera:
  - Other:

* INTEGRATION INTO AUTHORING TOOLS
  - Dreamweaver:
  - FrontPage:
  - Photoshop:
  - Other:

* EXPORT FORMATS
  - CSV, Comma Separated Value:
  - EARL, Evaluation and Report Language:
  - HTML, Hypertext Markup Language:
  - XML, Extensible Markup Language:
  - Other:

* LICENSE MODELS
  - Commercial:
  - Free Ware: yes
  - Open Source:
  - Share Ware:
  - Other:


Thank you for your cooperation!

Regards,
   Yehya Mohamad for ERT WG

Received on Monday, 13 February 2006 07:44:33 UTC