- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:50:59 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
The one thing about Bobby and other accessibility checkers I feel is misleading is that they categorize manual checks as a "problem". A site may be accessible, but will generate a long list of items to manually check anyway. I personally prefer Cynthia Says (http://cynthia.contentquality.com/) because it clearly says which checkpoints are not relevant to your site. The LIFT plugin (http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/accessibility/lift.html) can help, but I would recommend customizing it so that the manual check report is disabled. Another interesting test site is WebAIM's WAVE (http://www.wave.webaim.org/index.jsp) which is structured so that it shows location of ALT tags and other tags on the page. Finally, some editors like Dreamweaver have decent built-in accessibility checkers and reports - see http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/accessibility/dreamweaver.html for details I also recommend a multi-pronged testing strategy of a color check, style sheet check, zoom check and a text browser check. Expecting an automated tool to pick up every nuanced issue, like color contrast, is not realistic right now, Elizabeth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building II 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
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