Re: WAVE toolbar released

The new version of the Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.3 from University of Illinois has a built-in accessibility reporting features.

http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu

The accessibility extension can also create DHTML reports (includes content generated through Javascripting) with the Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) Reporting mechanism.  

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

The reports for both Firefox Extension and FAE are based on the use of the iCITA Best Practices to implement Section 508 and W3C WCAG accessibility requirements.

http://html.cita.uiuc.edu


Jon
 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Marjolein Katsma <iamback4now@yahoo.com>  
>Subject: WAVE toolbar released  
>To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>
>
>Possibly I'm stealing their thunder, but I'm so happy with this I want
>to share it with you:
>
>WebAIM [1] have released a toolbar version of their WAVE [2] tool, as
>announced in their brand-new blog [3]. It's a Firefox extension - still
>in beta but already very useful: unlike the Web Developer toolbar and
>the Accessibility toolbar, which interface with various online testing
>tools, this toolbar works on the page as rendered in the browser.
>
>As soon as I discovered this yesterday, I downloaded and installed it,
>and it's now a permanent member of my toolbox now. Of course I could
>not resist blogging [4] about it, too. I'll be keeping a close eye on
>how it develops - it looks set to become an even more useful testing
>tool than it already is in this first beta edition.
>
>[1] http://webaim.org/
>[2] http://wave.webaim.org/
>[3] http://wave.webaim.org/blog/
>[4] http://my.opera.com/JavaWoman/blog/2008/03/09/wave-toolbar-released
>
>
>--
>Marjolein Katsma
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>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility
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