RE: Web Accessibility: New LIFT NN/g product with product review

LIFT has provided an option to include the Nielsen-Norman guidelines for
some time.  It should be noted that those guidelines are not in the
public domain: they were published in Koyne and Nielsen (2001), Beyond
ALT Text, published as a PDF document (reasonably accessible) by
Nielsen-Norman.  Single copies are available for $190 (yes, that's one
hundred and ninety dollars); if you want to make copies, you'll have to
pay $390 (three hundred and ninety dollars).

Some of the guidelines make sense; some don't.  My review of the
Koyne-Nielsen report is in the ITD Journal at
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv08n2/review2.html.

John

John Slatin, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Technology & Learning
University of Texas at Austin
FAC 248C
1 University Station G9600
Austin, TX 78712
ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524
email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu
web http://www.ital.utexas.edu
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:15 am
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: FW: Web Accessibility: New LIFT NN/g product with product
review



An alternate set of accessibility guidelines now has a tool supporting
it.

-----Original Message-----
From: announcements@usablenet.com [mailto:announcements@usablenet.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:03 AM
To: gv@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: Web Accessibility: New LIFT NN/g product with product review

MacWorld magazine's review of LIFT Nielsen Norman Group (LIFT NNg) has
just been published. LIFT NNg was built in conjunction with Jakob
Nielsen's Nielsen Norman Group.* The software evaluates and repairs the
usability of web sites to ensure that they follow the NNg guidelines for
making websites and intranets usable for people with disabilities. 

Summary: 4.5 mice out of 5, "thorough and useful testing tool [...]
invaluable". http://www.macworld.com/2003/08/reviews/liftnng/

To get your own demonstration of the product go to:
http://www.usablenet.com/frontend/demoform.jsp?prod=nn

If you are already a user - there is a new version available, version
2.0, that you can obtain by emailing support@usablenet.com

*Note: The software runs on both Mac and PC.



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