- From: <public-council@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:18:50 +0000
- To: "Wilco Fiers" <w.fiers@accessibility.nl>,"Annika Nietzio" <an@ftb-volmarstein.de>,"Jeroen Hulscher" <jeroen@ebrella.com>,"Raph de Rooij" <w3c@raph.nl>,"Anand Balachandran Pillai" <anandpillai@letterboxes.org>,Cc: public-council@w3.org
With your support, the Automated WCAG Monitoring Community Group has been launched:
http://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/
To join:
http://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/join
This group was originally proposed on 2014-05-08
by Wilco Fiers. The following people supported its
creation:
Wilco Fiers
Annika Nietzio
Jeroen Hulscher
Raph de Rooij
Anand Balachandran Pillai
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Creating (semi-)automated tests for WCAG is key to affordable, large
scale research. The tests are designed in a way that they are useable by
people with a variety of skills. The results too should be informative,
not just to developers, but to website managers, policy makers and
disability advocates and others.
The objective of this community is to create and maintain tests that can
be implemented in large scale monitoring tools for web accessibility.
These tests will be either automated, or semi-automated, in which tools
assist non-expert users to evaluate web accessibility. By comparing the
test results with results from expert accessibility evaluators, we aim
to track the accuracy of the tests we've developed. This allows for an
iterative improvement and adjustment of the tests as web development
practices change and evolve. It also provides the statistical bases on
which large scale accessibility monitoring and benchmarking can be
built.
This group will not publish specifications.
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
Received on Monday, 12 May 2014 18:18:57 UTC