Re: WCAG2 Conformance Questions

Hi Ginger,

here are a few tools:

Open Source Screen Readers that have ARIA support:
-ORCA if your running Linux: http://live.gnome.org/Orca
-NVDA if your running Windows: http://www.nvda-project.org/
-Fire Vox which is a plug-in for Firefox, is handy for Web content browsing: http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/

Conformance Testing tools
-Valid HTML: http://validator.w3.org/
-Valid CSS: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
-WCAG2 AA conformance A-Checker: http://checker.atrc.utoronto.ca/index.html

 Accessible Web 2.0 content/apps are currently only possible through the WAI-ARIA specification as people have mentioned. I've written a few papers on ARIA Live Regions and would be happy give example code etc. if you could describe the widgets or behavior your trying to achieve in your Web app. I could also send links to my papers as a shameless plug :) Would people here find this off topic?

Regards
-peter

On 18/08/08 5:21 AM, "Ginger Claassen" <ginger.claassen@gmx.de> wrote:



Hello all,
I am new to this list and would like to use this occasion to briefly
introduce myself. I am 33 years old and blind and currently want to create a
WCAG 2.0 conform website. I am working in a very small business and we would
like to change our website in a way to make it accessible. I looked around
and found a few tools to evaluate websites in order to make it a bit faster
but so far I could not which one would be good for checking against WCAG
2.0.
Maybe someone in this list can help me and refer one or two good programs or
add-ons. That would be very helpful since checking all pages by hand would
be a very lengthy process.

Thanks in advance for your help and support!

Kind regards


     Ginger Claassen