RE: automated wcag validation rules

Hi Steve,

The Auto-WCAG community group started working on this subject last year, because we ran into the same problem you describe. As I'm sure you're aware, many parts of web accessibility testing is difficult to automate. Even the parts that seem straight forward at first glance will have exceptions and gotchas to look out for. So we decided to set up a community group to document tests which, based on our experience as accessibility auditors, would be sufficiently accurate for conformance testing.

We are currently working towards completing an initial set of test cases. They won't have full coverage of all success criteria, since most criteria can't be fully automated. For quite a few of them we are also looking into designing tests that can be done by people without particular accessibility or web technology expertise. This could be particularly useful for organisations without an accessibility expert on their QA team.

Auto-WCAG (like any community group) is open to anyone, o feel free to join if you want to participate or keep track of what we're up to!


Wilco Fiers
Accessibility Foundation NL

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Van: Andrew Kirkpatrick [akirkpat@adobe.com]
Verzonden: woensdag 18 maart 2015 13:12
Aan: Steve Faulkner; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Richard Schwerdtfeger
Onderwerp: RE: automated wcag validation rules

In terms of people looking into this there’s the Automated WCAG Monitoring Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/

From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:03 AM
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; Richard Schwerdtfeger
Subject: automated wcag validation rules

Hi all,
had a brief discussion with Rich s about a minumum set of automated conformance criteria
Problem: many automated tools claim to test wcag criteria, but there is no standardized set (to my knowledge) of conformance criteria rules that can be checked using automated software. This has lead to a range of tools claiming to test WCAG conformance when in fact some requirements are out of step/incorrect.
Has there been any work/discussion on producing a standardized set of machine testable wcag2 conformance criteria that any tool claiming to be testing wcag conformance can be tested against?
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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:37:57 UTC