- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:02 +0200
- To: h.snetselaar@bartimeus.nl
- Cc: wai-eo-editors@w3.org
Hi Henk, Thank you for reading the documents and submitting the WBS form. I've recorded your comment in the changelog as a future item to discuss as you suggested. WBS Mailer on behalf of <h.snetselaar@bartimeus.nl> wrote: > --------------------------------- > Selecting Tools page > ---- > > > Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): > For tuture versions: > Some accessibility evaluation tools offered on the web may not even have > the name 'accessibility evaluation tool'. You will have heard about > 'sildtide' that claims to evaluate according to W3C guidelines and gives > the most horrible web site a nice figure, sometimes even a 10 (in a range > 1-10) and reports 'All webpages were found to be fully compliant with the > W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and therefore likely not in > violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act.' without any > manual checking. I tried the www.mcdonals.nl a horrible site in terms of > accessibility, but by silktide fully compliant. > > My message is that we should think whether we should something about > non-tools that claims to give a accessibility status of your site. > Henk Regards, Shadi -- Shadi Abou-Zahra, Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe Chair and Team Contact for the Evaluation and Repair Tools WG World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/ Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/ WAI-TIES Project, http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/ Evaluation and Repair Tools WG, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ 2004, Route des Lucioles -- 06560, Sophia-Antipolis -- France Voice: +33(0)4 92 38 50 64 Fax: +33(0)4 92 38 78 22
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