- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:44:51 +0200
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Personally I am not that keen on updating it, although I do use it as a reference, and as a user I would like to see it maintained. I am interested in maintaining information on tools for the EuroAccessibility group, which would be a subset of those in the list. My idea at this stage would be to produce an Xform that can be used to read / update RDF data - if I do this I will also need to produce at least an XHTML version of the data, and I will naturally make all of that work available. If it were easy to update the information, and it were available in a machine-readable form, then I might be able to volunteer some time to update some of the information currently there (besides that which is directly relevant to my work with Sidar or EuroAccessibility). I would not be able to commit to maintaining that information though. cheers Chaals On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 23:36 Europe/Zurich, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any interest in updating or reformatting or in some way > reusing the list of tools at [1]? > > --w > > [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html > > At 04:46 AM 7/27/2003, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >> 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 FormaciŰn 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 > > -- > wendy a chisholm > world wide web consortium > web accessibility initiative > http://www.w3.org/WAI/ > /-- > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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