Re: EuroAccessibility testing tools

A-Prompt is available in English, French and Korean. The German translation
will be out by the end of August.

It evaluates (and repairs) HTML. If Sidar is interested in looking at
A-Prompt, they can download and use it at no cost from:
http://www.aprompt.ca

Cheers,
Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>
To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:46 AM
Subject: 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.
>
> --
> Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
> charles@sidar.org                                http://www.sidar.org
>

Received on Monday, 28 July 2003 08:58:41 UTC