- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:34:02 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi All Further to the recent announcement regarding the new release of Bobby, I was eagerly anticipating the new version but, for me, I don't think it's going to happen I am sad to say that I have extremely poor experience dealing with Wathchfire (no replies to e-mails, unresolved support issues), so in the interests of being able to get on with my job, would anyone care to recommend a product that: 1) has similar or better functionality to Bobby 2) can be run offline on any software platform (I'm on Linux) to evaluate an entire site 3) is affordable to small organisations suffering from a bad US dollar exchange rate (Bobby nearly qualifies) 4) is produced by an organisation with a sound customer service record 5) is generally recognised by the Accessibility community I'm only really interested in reporting on WCAG compliance; interpretation of the DDA here suggests that this is the standard (OK, guidelines!) which is acceptable in Australia. Section 508 is only of academic interest to me, so if the evaluation tool does not cover this, I wouldn't be too worried. Thanks in anticipation. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultant - KBC, South Australia KBC Web Site http://www.kbc.net.au PGP Public Key http://gpg.mss.cx
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