RE: good response:Fw: Time and Cost Modeling of making web pagesaccessible.

Agreed Charles there is much out there we also perform actions like you
mentioned. Web Content developers need to look at what test and test
management systems best fit into their current processes or which ones
make it easy to integrate with existing systems! Additionally it helps
if output can be shared and accessed by all.

This is one one the Reasons that HiSoftware has included a complete API
and EARL support into our global/enterprise test management systems!

Cheers,
Rob Y.

EARL Support and API
http://www.hisoftware.com/developer/earlPublisher.htm


> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:25 AM
> To: Christian Seus
> Cc: David Poehlman; wai-ig list
> Subject: RE: good response:Fw: Time and Cost Modeling of 
> making web pagesaccessible.
> 
> 
> Actually there are a number of products where the software 
> helps you. Bobby (and some other tools like it) show you 
> where problems are, and might give you a reference in your code.
> 
> Tools like AccRepair, Aprompt, LIFT for Dreamweaver, and 
> others can either integrate with editing software to put you 
> in the right place to make the changes, and provide more 
> detailed information about what needs to be fixed and how, or 
> they actually have an editing function themselves - for 
> example they might ask you for a short equivalent text to 
> replace an image when necessary, and then make the code 
> changes automatically.
> 
> Additionally there is software that can work out what you 
> have done in a site already. For example, if you have used an 
> image to link to a particular page in 7 places, and the text 
> equivalent in each case is "search", when you use the image 
> again to link to the same place the tool might propose the 
> text equivalent "search" - which reduces the effort of fixing 
> something to a single confirmation.
> 
> These kind of techniques are being developed and published by 
> the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines working group 
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU on an ongoing basis. If you have a 
> particular interest in developing those or seeing what is 
> there you might like to look further into that group.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Charles McCN
> 
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Christian Seus wrote:
> 
>   David,
> 
>   I have not used this software that you speak of, but it 
> looks like it is
>   just a fancier version of the bobby software.  You still 
> have to manually
>   add code to repair your accessibility issues.  You still 
> have to manually
>   add alt tag descriptions even if you are using this software.  The
>   software is not going to do it for you.  It just points out 
> the problem.
> 
>   Christian
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman1@comcast.net]
>   Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:02 AM
>   To: Christian Seus; wai-ig list
>   Subject: Re: good response:Fw: Time and Cost Modeling of 
> making web pagesaccessible.
> 
>   http://www.hisoftware.com
>   can severely cut the cost of repairing a site but of 
> course, we want to
>   build it right in the first place.  yes, it will test and 
> repair your
>   site and I doubt 200 images will take hours in this senario.
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Christian Seus" <cas@ichp.edu>
>   To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>   Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:46 AM
>   Subject: RE: good response:Fw: Time and Cost Modeling of making web
>   pages accessible.
> 
> 
>   Jennison,
> 
>   The costs involved in putting alt tags on your images are 
> very minimal.
>   I would say a few hours at the very most for 200 images.  
> The real issue
>   is the costs involved in making your whole site accessible. 
>  And this
>   would depend on your site and how it is coded now.
> 
>   Currently, I don't think there is software to test your site for a
>   complete list of accessible issues.  There is software that 
> will help
>   you try though. http://www.cast.org/bobby/
> 
> 
>   Christian Seus
>   Web Designer
>   Gainesville, Fl
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman1@comcast.net]
>   Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:10 AM
>   To: wai-ig list
>   Subject: good response:Fw: Time and Cost Modeling of making 
> web pages
>   accessible.
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Jacobs, Steve I" <sj131264@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com>
>   To: <asuncion@alcor.concordia.ca>
>   Cc: <uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu>
>   Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:49 AM
>   Subject: Time and Cost Modeling of making web pages accessible.
> 
> 
>   Jennison,
> 
>   One of the benefits of adding Alt-Text to an image is that 
> it enhances
>   the
>   ability to automatically transcode HTML into WML.  This is 
> a business
>   benefit to those wishing to make their HTML content accessible to
>   wireless
>   Internet appliances.  We have demonstrated this in practice.
> 
>   Simplifying the content of a web page has holds the potential to cut
>   language translation costs in-half because, on average, you 
> reduce the
>   number of words by a half.  We have demonstrated this in practice.
> 
>   Simplified English is easier to read by those using English 
> as a Second
>   Language. This has been demonstrated in practice.
> 
>   There is more to the "value equation" of changing Silver 
> [HTML] to Gold
>   [Accessible HTML] than simply the cost of conversion.  Gold is worth
>   more
>   than Silver.  To make good business sense your model will 
> need to factor
>   in
>   this value... whatever the business community deems it to be.  I can
>   certainly provide you with my opinion. :-)  I predict that 
> that the true
>   "cost" is negative... to a great extent.
> 
>   Good luck on your efforts.
> 
>   Sincerely,
> 
>   Steve
> 
>   Steve Jacobs
>   Accessibility Program Manager
>   and President, IDEAL at NCR
>   NCR Corporation
>   2809 Bohlen Drive
>   Hilliard, Ohio 43026
> 
>   Phone: (614) 777-0660
>   Fax: (937) 445-1955
>   TTY: (800) 855-2880
>   STS: (877) 750-9097
>   E-mail: steve.jacobs@ncr.com
>   URL: http://www.ncr.com
> 
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman1@comcast.net]
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:25 AM
>   To: uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu
>   Subject: Re: web page accessibility time and costing models?
> 
> 
>   the wai might have info on this.
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Jennison Asuncion" <asuncion@alcor.concordia.ca>
>   To: <easi@maelstrom.stjohns.edu>
>   Cc: <uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu>
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:05 AM
>   Subject: web page accessibility time and costing models?
> 
> 
>   Hello.
> 
>   I am wondering if anyone here either has or knows where I can find
>   models
>   that provide figures (based on real or assumed data) around 
> the time and
>   cost associated with making a web page accessible?
> 
>   For example, given a web site with 200 images, how long, on average,
>   does
>   it take to create the alt tag and test it? Additionally, how much
>   additional cost does this add on to the development of  a 
> site. Another
>   example would be: how much time does it take to run a checker/repair
>   tool
>   on a typical web page?
> 
>   Any help in hthis area would be appreciated.
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Jennison
> 
> 
> 
> 
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