- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 04:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Michael R. Burks" <mburks952@worldnet.att.net>
- cc: <sec508@trace.wisc.edu>, WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I would also suggest looking at the 508 Suite produced by UsableNet that works as a plugin for Macromedia's Dreamweaver. The plugin is free from Macromedia (you have to register with them, and you need a copy of Draeamweaver which isn't free to make it work). There are a couple of people who have committed to work on evaluation of these aginst the Authoring Tool Accessibiltiy Guidelines as part of their participation in that working group, and results will be available as is all the work of that group from http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU - the review work that has been done so far is listed on the reviews pages at http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/reviews (by the way, we welcome additional material there, subject to the reqirements listed on the page). cheers Charles McCN On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Michael R. Burks wrote: David, that is a good idea, the evaluation copy that I have does not do the Dlink, but I am pretty impressed with it none the less, I am hoping they will come out with some more tools as this one works pretty well. It is kind of specialized, but you are correct it should be included. Sincerely, Mike Burks -----Original Message----- From: owner-sec508@trace.wisc.edu [mailto:owner-sec508@trace.wisc.edu]On Behalf Of David Poehlman Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:33 AM To: sec508@trace.wisc.edu; WAI IG Subject: Re: Evaluations and Analysis of Current Versions of Section 508 Tools 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 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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