Re: EuroAccessibility testing tools

Hello,

Is there any interest in updating or reformatting or in some way reusing 
the list of tools at [1]?

--w

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html

At 04:46 AM 7/27/2003, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>one of the things I am doing in my role with Fundacion Sidar is 
>participating in the EuroAccessibility Consortium. They have started to do 
>their technical public work, and I am a chair of one of their subgroups. 
>(Anyone who is "european" can participate in the work - and anyone at all 
>can send comments, although we haven't yet established a mailing list).
>
>The subgroup in question is looking at a methodology for examining 
>evaluation tools, and working out how to integrate them into a clearly 
>defined evaluation process. Its first task is to collect a list of tools 
>used by EuroAccessibility members, or widely used in general. The work 
>plan I will publish shortly outlines what the group will do, but in 
>outline it will collect a list of tools, produce a basic proposal for a 
>methodology, and then a concrete proposal for examining a number of tools 
>and how they integrate into the testing methodology being developed in 
>another public subgroup.
>
>These methodologies will be coordinated with WAI, who are after all the 
>people qualified to interpret their specifications if there are unresolved 
>questions.
>
>The first draft of the list     is just tools used by Sidar, and is 
>included at the bottom of this mail.
>
>I will publish shortly details of how to watch or participate in the 
>subgroup's work.
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>Tools designed for accessibility evaluation
>AccVerify
> From HiSoftware. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML, MS Word 
> documents. It is available in English.
>Bobby
> From Watchfire. This is used widely, and tests HTML, XHTML. It is 
> available in English.
>CynthisSays
> From HiSoftware. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML. It is 
> available in English.
>TAW
> From Fondo FormaciÛn Asturias. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML and 
> XHTML. It is available in Spanish.
>Torquemada
> From Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. This tests HTML and XHTML. It is available 
> in Italian.
>The Wave
> From WebAIM. This is used by Sidar and tests HTML and XHTML. It is 
> available in english (but is primarily visual).
>Other tools used for evaluation
>Opera
> From Opera Software. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML, XML, 
> CSS. It is available in English, Spanish.
>
>--
>Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
>charles@sidar.org                                http://www.sidar.org

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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:37:22 UTC