Re: the Wave - accessibility evaluator

Len,

Good start for this helpful tool.

The page becomes a bit cluttered with your added icons. Is it possible to
reorganize the page so that it is less cluttered? Could you display all the
items in a list?

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 3:01 PM
Subject: the Wave - accessibility evaluator


> I've started work on an accessibility evaluator called the Wave (Web
> Accessibility Versatile Evaluator).
>
> Although the Wave incorporates some automatic checking like we've
> discussed, the emphasis is to aid human judgment of accessibility, and to
> do so without showing HTML.
>
>    Features
>
>       Displays Alternative content next to Images, Applets, etc.
>       Displays Error icons if Alternative content is missing.
>       Displays, via numbering, order screenreader reads page (linearized
> order).
>       Warns of special circumstances, e.g. audio links
>
>
>    Users and Uses
>             Sighted users can
>                      visually evaluate quality of alternatives
>                      and order of presentation
>             Blind users can
>                      evaluate alternative content,
>                      be alerted by Error icons;
>                      use numbering to commnicate criticisms
>             Deaf Users
>                      will be alerted to audio content
>
> I've got a first draft prototype running.  Right now it's just running
> locally on my machine but I'll be getting it out on the web when I get the
> chance.  You can take a look at examples of it's use at
>
> http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/talks/wai-er-ig/wave/
>
>
> Len
>
>
>
> -------
> Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
> Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
> Department of Electrical Engineering
> Temple University
> 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122
>
> kasday@acm.org
> http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday
>
> (215) 204-2247 (voice)
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Received on Thursday, 9 December 1999 09:23:54 UTC