WCAG HTML test suite

Hi guys,

    first I want to thank you for the opportunity you gave me to work with 
you. I hope I can help this group somehow. As I said to Shadi, I am in a 
very *unstable* situation at the moment, as I am in the middle of moving to 
Australia (from Italy).

    Anyway, I am really interested in what Chris and the Toronto University 
(I guess) have been doing with the test suite. I am really happy indeed of 
what ht://Check [1] has now become thanks to his work on the Open 
Accessibility Checks and I think it is a really important step for a 
methodological and uniform way of automatically assessing accessibility of 
HTML documents.

    We all know this can't be the only way of evaluating an accessible 
page, but at the same time it could massively help the human and supervised 
evaluation.

    I am just wondering if there are any existing public libraries (or 
projects that aim to build them) that would perform this kind of tests on 
an HTML document and produce different outputs (RDF and specifically EARL 
could be realistic cases, for instance).

    Also, do we have any statistics regarding the most spread and diffused 
accessibility barriers on the Internet? If not, I was thinking we could 
build a sort of "panel" of web sites that we can follow for a specified 
period and run ht://Check against them. ht://Check can build a database of 
the accessibility checks that have failed and - if periodically run - could 
give us an important report of the situation and its evolution. Any thoughts?

    Ok. That's all for now. I guess I will talk to you tonight. :-)

Ciao,
-Gabriele

[1] ht://Check is an open-source link checker which crawls the Internet (or 
portions of it) and stores structure and content information in a MySQL 
database. Since version 1.2.3 it introduces the concept and feature of 
accessibility checks, by following the open accessibility checks promoted 
by the University of Toronto. [ http://htcheck.sf.net/ ]
--
Gabriele Bartolini: Web Programmer, ht://Dig & IWA/HWG Member, ht://Check 
and ht://Miner maintainer
Current Location: Prato, Toscana, Italia
me@gabrielebartolini.it | www.gabrielebartolini.it | ICQ#129221447
 > "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", Dante Alighieri, Divina 
Commedia, Inferno

Received on Tuesday, 22 February 2005 12:32:45 UTC