- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:08:42 +0200
- To: "'WAI/ER/IG'" <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Alan Chuter'" <achuter@teleservicios.com>, "'Alistair Garrison'" <alistair.garrison@accessinmind.com>
hi, wanted to bring up an interesting idea proposed by alan to the group: > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Chuter [mailto:achuter@teleservicios.com] > Subject: Common interface for automatic evaluation tools > > I've been in contact with two Java-based evaluation tools > last week. Although EARL allows the integration of reports > from different tools, a very simple idea occurred to me to > allow pluggable tests. My suggestion is to establish a set of > common interfaces for tests and for pages. Each tool should > define a method that accepts a AccessibilityTest object. The > test object fulfils the, for example, AccessibilityTest > interface which defines one method: > > TestResult runTest(WebDocument doc); > > Each tool would provide a method to register > AccessibilityTest objects, and then run all the registered > tests against each WebDocument it creates. The > AccessibilityTest objects all return TestResults. > > While EARL allows a comparison of results for different > checkpoints across different tools, this technique would > allow the same test code to be run on each tool. It allows > users to create their own pluggable tests, and potentially > allows a test developer to produce a test suite independantly > of the tool vendor. > > I hope I'm not repeating something that's been discussed already. > > regards > > Alan Chuter. > Accessibility Consultant. > Fundosa Teleservicios, SA > Fundación ONCE. > Tel:+34 91 121 03 35 > achuter@teleservicios.com
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