- From: Brent Morris <brainsquared@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:03:38 -0400
- To: Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com>
- Cc: Alice Good <alice.good@port.ac.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I would also recommend RAMP from Deque[1], I spent the last summer researching accessibility tools for a government institution. I found that Deque's software was the easiest to use by a person not trained at checking web accessibility. I also found that it had the lowest amount of false positives and false negatives. I would not recommend CynthiaSays[2] or it's commercial version AccVerify[3], I tested it extensively and found that it missed many errors that Ramp did not. I looked at InFocus[4] and LIFT[5] too. But I was not particularly happy with these products. InFocus was okay but I found it slow and not user-friendly for those nont experienced with HTML. And I couldn't convince the people at LIFT to provide our organization to test how well it worked so I don't trust it. HTH, Brent Morris [1] http://www.deque.com [2] http://www.cynthiasays.com [3] http://www.hisoftware.com [4] http://www.ssbtechnologies.com [5] http://www.usablenet.com On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:12:52 -0400, Sailesh Panchang <sailesh.panchang@deque.com> wrote: > > Hello Alice, > >Can anyone recommend a credible accessbility >checker please? > > You could try Ramp from Deque Systems (www.deque.com). It has both > accessibility checker as well as repair capabilities. Ramp can handle 15 of > the 16 Sec 508 checks and most of the WCAG 1.0 checks. One can check only > against specific Sec 508 paragraphs or specific WCAG checkpoints and turn > off the others. > It lets the evaluator choose how certain violations are to be identified > based on a set of options. > For some checks it asks questions with specific answer choices based on > which it determines if the code presents an accessibility barrier. The > repair can be done in two stages: some violations can be autofixed by Ramp > and can be done across a Web page or the site or folder that has been > evaluated. It presents a dialog box approach for the rest. Its reporting > capabilities are extensive too and meets needs of Managers, developers and > reviewers. I can go on but it is best you write to me off list. > Sailesh Panchang > Senior Accessibility Engineer > Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, > 4th Floor, Reston VA 20191 > Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 > E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com > Fax: 703-225-0387 > * Look up <http://www.deque.com> * > > > -- Brent Morris
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