Title
Next Generation Web Accessibility
Evaluation Tools at Illinois Part 1
Description
The workshop will demonstrate the
Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0 and the AInspector Sidebar add-on
to the Firefox browser to evaluate the accessibility of dynamically generated
web content. The tools use the open source OpenAjax Accessibility
Alliance evaluation library and rulesets designed to evaluate websites
compliance with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A and
AA conformance. The tools support the use of W3C Accessible Rich Internet
Accessibility (ARIA) 1.0 Specification and HTML 5 accessibility features
techniques for achieving WCAG Compliance. FAE 2.0 is a server-based tool
to evaluate and report on the accessibility of entire websites and will replace
FAE 1.1 later this summer. AInspector Sidebar for Firefox allows current
web page to be evaluated for accessibility allowing it to be used behind
password protected websites and it also provides several different highlighting
options to identify the accessibility features of specific elements on a page.
The presentation is designed to be interactive and people who have tried the
tools are encourages to come and provide feedback on their experience using the
tools and bring their suggestions on what would make the tools more useful to
them. DRES would like to work with developers working on new websites
this summer to help them design into their websites and templates WCAG 2.0
compliance. Contact Jon Gunderson at jongund@illinois.edu.
