EuroAccessibility testing tools

Hi all,

one of the things I am doing in my role with Fundacion Sidar is 
participating in the EuroAccessibility Consortium. They have started to 
do their technical public work, and I am a chair of one of their 
subgroups. (Anyone who is "european" can participate in the work - and 
anyone at all can send comments, although we haven't yet established a 
mailing list).

The subgroup in question is looking at a methodology for examining 
evaluation tools, and working out how to integrate them into a clearly 
defined evaluation process. Its first task is to collect a list of 
tools used by EuroAccessibility members, or widely used in general. The 
work plan I will publish shortly outlines what the group will do, but 
in outline it will collect a list of tools, produce a basic proposal 
for a methodology, and then a concrete proposal for examining a number 
of tools and how they integrate into the testing methodology being 
developed in another public subgroup.

These methodologies will be coordinated with WAI, who are after all the 
people qualified to interpret their specifications if there are 
unresolved questions.

The first draft of the list	 is just tools used by Sidar, and is 
included at the bottom of this mail.

I will publish shortly details of how to watch or participate in the 
subgroup's work.

cheers

Chaals

Tools designed for accessibility evaluation
AccVerify
 From HiSoftware. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML, MS Word 
documents. It is available in English.
Bobby
 From Watchfire. This is used widely, and tests HTML, XHTML. It is 
available in English.
CynthisSays
 From HiSoftware. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML. It is 
available in English.
TAW
 From Fondo FormaciÛn Asturias. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML 
and XHTML. It is available in Spanish.
Torquemada
 From Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. This tests HTML and XHTML. It is available 
in Italian.
The Wave
 From WebAIM. This is used by Sidar and tests HTML and XHTML. It is 
available in english (but is primarily visual).
Other tools used for evaluation
Opera
 From Opera Software. This is used by Sidar, and tests HTML, XHTML, XML, 
CSS. It is available in English, Spanish.

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Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
charles@sidar.org                                http://www.sidar.org

Received on Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:46:52 UTC