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Thursday, March 02, 2006  



Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3 by Patrick H. Lauke
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/lauke/

When it comes to assessing a Web site's accessibility, any Web designer should know by now that simply running the mark-up though an automated testing tool is not enough. Automated tools are limited, purely testing for syntax, easily ascertained "yes or no" situations and a set of (sometimes quite arbitrary) heuristics, which are often based on an interpretation of accessibility guidelines on the part of the tool's developers. Nonetheless, automated checkers are a useful tool in the arsenal of accessibility-conscious designers, provided that their results are checked for false positives/negatives [1] and backed up by the necessary manual checks, carried out by a knowledgeable human tester who is familiar with any potential access issues and how they manifest themselves in a Web site. This article gives a quick run-down of Testo Accesibilidad Web (TAW)3 [2], a free tool - developed by the Spanish Fundación CTIC (Centre for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies in Asturias) - to test Web pages against WCAG 1.0. TAW3 is available both as an online version (similar to other tools such as Cynthia [3] and Wave [4]) and as a stand-alone java application. In this article, we will concentrate on the stand-alone version, which in version 3 is now also available in English. This has been added to Accessibility Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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