Those of you that have read our previous posts about SharePoint accessibility, the disappearance of Bobby or my recent whitepaper on accessibility should appreciate that issues around accessible web design are close to the hearts of everyone here at Futurate, and in our never ending quest to find the perfect web-based automated accessibility testing tool we have found Wave.
What's nice about Wave is that rather than generating a somewhat impenetrable list of what's wrong with a site, it displays the page itself with problems (and good stuff like accesskeys) linked to specific page elements. You can see an example here - http://wave.webaim.org/report?url=www.futurate.com (rollover the icons for additional information).
For people who prefer Firefox to Internet Explorer a Wave toolbar is available which allows you to check the page you are on, at the click of a button.
It works rather well, but in order to try and determine whether a Wave report page is accessible don't try Waveing a Wave page......
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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Thanks for this! Very glad someone had not only observed that Bobby was no more but could point me to a good alternative.
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