Re: Accessibility evaluation methodology

Hi all,

We face the same situation Léonie faces at Nomensa. Maybe it would be a good opportunity to work together and come up with something that would represent how we run our evaluations. I'm pretty sure it would be very similar.

Léonie and I have been talking about this for a while, maybe this is a good opportunity to do so. Others could want to jump in as well...

/Denis


 
On 2011-10-21, at 3:44 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:

> 	No, it isn't documented publicly. It's probably fairly typical of the methodology used by agencies to carry out accessibility evaluations, but it isn't formalised in a central place as far as I know.
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> Regards,
> Léonie.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shadi Abou-Zahra [mailto:shadi@w3.org] 
> Sent: 20 October 2011 13:41
> To: Léonie Watson
> Cc: public-wai-rd@w3.org; Eval TF
> Subject: Re: Accessibility evaluation methodology
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> Hi Leonie,
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> Is this methodology documented publicly?
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> The idea is not to document organizations that carry out evaluations but rather existing, publicly documented methodologies to learn from.
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> I will clarify the wiki page accordingly.
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> Thanks,
>   Shadi
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> On 20.10.2011 12:26, Léonie Watson wrote:
>> Good morning,
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>> 	In response to Shadi's request for one/two sentence descriptions of accessibility evaluation methodologies:
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>> 	Nomensa manually evaluates a representative sample of pages against the full set of WCAG success criteria, and uses automated tools to evaluate a large sample of pages against a subset of WCAG success criteria. We also carry out an holistic evaluation of the site from the perspective of people with different disabilities/assistive technology requirements.
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>> Regards,
>> Léonie.
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>> Léonie Watson, Director of Accessibility&  Web Development
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>> twitter: @we_are_Nomensa @LeonieWatson
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