- From: Jacob Rose <jrose@lgb-inc.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:09:02 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
My team tried WebQA last summer, and was waiting on the client's budget to provide us with funds for licenses for it when, as the Watchfire salesman says, "that product was sunsetted," a euphemism for "you can't get that anymore, but we'd be happy to sell you stupendously more expensive products." WebQA had a one-time license costing several hundred dollars per desktop (which we budgeted for) vs. the several thousand dollars per month (!) Watchfire wants to let you run your own WebXM server. If you aren't familiar with WebQA, it was a desktop-based spidering validator for WCAG/508 (among other standards) that let you set up scripts to walk through various features of your application. We can't scan our application via a web site: it's on a private network, and contains private data. I wish they'd open-sourced (and dropped official support for) WebQA rather than killing and burying it, depriving people altogether of its utility. Anyway, does anyone have suggestions for comparable tools to WebQA? -- Jacob Rose LGB & Associates, Inc. http://www.lgb-inc.com/
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