- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:32:36 -0400
- To: <sec508@trace.wisc.edu>, "WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
have you included corda? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael R. Burks" <mburks952@worldnet.att.net> To: <sec508@trace.wisc.edu>; "WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Evaluations and Analysis of Current Versions of Section 508 Tools I apologize for the cross posting. Does anyone know it there is anyone who has done an analysis and evaluation of the Section 508 Tools available. I am working on one but cannot include them all because some at least as far as I know do not make evaluation copies available. I know of the following tools and have worked with the ones I have marked A-prompt - Free, I am just beginning to analyze it. SSB - I am working with an evaluation copy of the New Release - I must say things like the gray scale preview move it to the top of my list. Hiawatha Software - Just beginning to look at it, the reports look good but you can only run it 15 times so that is going to be a problem. New Coast Guard Tools - just got these today, they are free and look very good! Below is what they are and how you can get them. 1. AccessibilityMonitor - monitors a website for newly posted non-compliant web pages and alerts webmasters responsible for the relevant content are - integrates with Outlook for email and tasking of web page corrections - includes an extensible set of compliance rules. Some agencies seem to be taking the view that the purpose of 508 is to make all pages compliant - which is partly true; the law however applies to new or dynamic pages - thus this application is useful from a time management perspective... 2. PageWriter - uses same extensible rule checking engine - but is designed to be a Frontpage type tool for creating new web pages in a 508 compliant fashion 3. DirWriter - allows webmasters to quickly process 508 corrections accross domains/sites from one app. The first two apps operate along a page-by page basis - but this one takes a more macro approach. Here's the link where you can download and evaluate these free tools: http://www.uscg.mil/legal/508/readme.htm Are there other tools that can be evaluated? I know the Wave has been down for a long time, I wonder if it will ever come back up. Any help on this project would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Mike Burks
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