- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:45:12 -0500
- To: jbrewer@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Judy, The Wave is at a point where I'd like feedback from IG, and I'd like to post it before CSUN if possible. I've attached a brief description. Do I just post it? Or should it come from you? Len ======== There's a new tool available to help evaluate accessibility of Web sites. It's called the WAVE (Web accessibility Visual Evaluator) http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/ . The WAVE superimposes icons and labels on a web page to show what information is available via ALT text and applet alternatives, and show the reading order. This gives a person a quick way to compare the ALT text with the images, and the applet alternatives with the Applets, and see if the reading order makes sense. Also, missing, suspicious, and blank ALT text are flagged for scrutiny. In other words, the focus is to help a person make the basic manual checks needed to evaluate accessibility. Although the WAVE's input and output is designed to be accessible, right now it doesn't appear to be that useful for people who are blind (e.g. presenting the ALT text next to an image doesn't help a person who doesn't see the image). Suggestions are needed on features to make the WAVE more useful to people who are blind, and to help evaluate more accessibility checkpoints, especially checkpoints for disabilities other than blindness. The WAVE was developed at Pennsylvania's Institute on Assistive Technology, a program of the Institute on Disabilities/UAP at Temple University, and incorporates techniques and suggestions from the WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Interest Group. Please post feedback to list and/or to the tool's author (Len Kasday, kasday@acm.org ). ============ 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) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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