Re: Conformance Claims

There are some tools around that allow the user to validate manually - this
feature is starting to be integrated into automatic testing toools as well. I
know that it is a part of HiSoftware's tools, and supervised some students
integrating it into the Open source WAI-Nu evaluation tool.

I got "not found" trying to follow the link below, but I also have produceed
a tool for declaring point by point which checkpoints are met. It uses
Xforms, so you need a browser capable of handling them - there are plugins
avaiable for "current" browsers, and there are browsers that handle them
natively such as DENG and Xsmiles.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/axforms - there is a readme that
explains what I am doing, and there are several development versions with
more interesting features that don't necvessarily work yet.

cheers

Chaals

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote:

>For personal experience (I represent inside W3C IWA/HWG, the world
>biggest association of web professional), web develpers that don't work
>directly in accessibility initiatives, for reach the "minimum level of
>accessibility" only made the "Bobby" or other automatic testing tool
>validation.
>This is wrong also because these tools are not the "panacea" for the
>validation: for eg. a lot of these don't validate CSS so there is the pr
>oblem that if I use fixed size font the validator said me "xxxx approved
>for level AA" but if the font are fixed size i cannot declare level 2.
>The best to do is to create a policy maker (like this one:
>http://www.prato.linux.it/~gbartolini/it/wcag/) where the developer in
>good faith declare what points its work reached.