[Mailman-Developers] Accessibility Testing Tools (was Re: Hi! I'll be your intern for the summer :)) Hi! I'll be your intern for the summer :))

[Laura Carlson]

--On Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:09 PM +0200 emf wrote:

>> One of the tools that I have my students use is to test forms is the
>> WAVE. [5]  It will spot violations like missing labels, labels not
>> associated with inputs, empty labels, etc. and notify you with
>> icons.  [6]
>
> Great! I will use that and Cynthia.

Sounds good, Ethan. If you need any help interpreting the automated 
tools analysis and recommendations, please let me know.

To be effective, accessibility checkers should form part of a wider 
process that includes an informed person acting on their 
recommendations.

Where accessibility is concerned, human judgement is key. Knowledge is 
the best tool for ensuring accessibility. The tools are only useful if 
you know what they're looking for, and if you know how to interpret 
their suggestions (including allowing for special cases in your code 
that generate false alerts in the evaluation). They will also only 
verify a fraction of the things you need to do -- the rest of the 
checkpoints require "human judgement"-- i.e., knowledge.

Laura
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009
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