- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:47:13 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Jeanie wrote: >A previous message referred to jimthatcher.com as a source of information >on evaluation and repair tools. It is my understanding that this is a >vendor website. If you want correct information on ACCVerify, you might >follow these links. I am not a vendor. Neither is Jim Thatcher nor jimthatcher.com. He is a consultant, and quite a good consultant since he was the vice-chair of the committee that wrote section 508 and pioneered the 1st screen reader called Screen Reader for DOS, that where the term "screen reader" comes from, the "Kleenex" of facial tissue. Jim is just as independent as the authors of these reports that you recommend, and, more importantly, he is more knowledgeable. I don't know Mr. Steve Graves, a former GCN reviewer, and chief engineer at Communications Resource Inc. of Potomac, Md., but he's no accessibility researcher or pioneer. These articles only compare a few products, while Jim's evaluation compares them all. If you have some specific information about Jim's comment on AccVerify, I'm sure he would accept the input. I have and use HiSoftware, Lift, Crunchy, Bobby, SSB, and others. I have and read the Forrester report. I'm not complaining about the reports or reference to them, they are all good, just not complete without also comparison evaluations like at jimthatcher.com Phill Jenkins member W3C WAI Authoring Tools working group
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