- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:33:57 +0200
- To: Johannes Koch <johannes.koch@fit.fraunhofer.de>
- CC: public-wai-ert@w3.org, Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
Hi, Johannes Koch wrote: >> Is this definition clearer now? > > Yes Good! >> Can you picture your most favorite tool and easily find where it would >> fit in according to this definition? How about your least favorite >> tool and some others in between? > > A tool may perform both automatic and semi-automatic tests. Not sure what you are getting at. Yes, a tool may perform a test fully automatically or it can execute it *partially* (and leave some steps for the human evaluator). In the latter case we call it semi-automatic. Note: I added "guidance" to "instructions" in the definition for manual to cover highlighting and other aid mechanisms used by browser toolbars and other such evaluation tools. These are not really evaluation steps. Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe | Chair & Staff Contact for the Evaluation and Repair Tools WG | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/ | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/ | WAI-TIES Project, http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/ | Evaluation and Repair Tools WG, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ | 2004, Route des Lucioles - 06560, Sophia-Antipolis - France | Voice: +33(0)4 92 38 50 64 Fax: +33(0)4 92 38 78 22 |
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