- From: Sandy Ressler <sressler@nist.gov>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 14:34:33 -0400
- To: Jutta Treviranus <jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca>
- CC: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, w3c-wai-au@w3.org
You might want to check out something called the Common Industry Format (CIF)
at:
http://www.nist.gov/iusr
It's purpose is
"The overall purpose of the Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test
Reports is to promote incorporation of usability as part of procurement
decision-making for interactive products. It provides a common format for human
factors engineers and usability professionals in supplier companies to report
the methods and results of usability tests to consumer organizations. "
Althought not designed for tool evaluation I suspect something similar would be
suitable.
I don't know anything else about it...ask the contacts on the site.
Sandy
Jutta Treviranus wrote:
> Kynn wrote:
> >Fred Barnett, a member of the HTML Writers Guild's governing board
> >who has experience using and reviewing authoring tools is interested
> >in writing a review of Allaire's Homesite product to evaluate how
> >it complies with ATAG.
> >
> >Would this be a useful project for him to undertake?
>
> Yes it would definitely be useful, there are quite a few tools to evaluate.
> To pull together the evaluations as one document we should probably agree
> on a common format. Perhaps we could offer a completed evaluation as a
> template to follow.
>
> Jutta
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