[Athen] Testing Web Accessibility

[Ron]

Thanks for confirming my understanding.
On Jul 13, 2015 8:52 AM, "Sylvia Richardson" <Sylvia.Richardson at bcbsnc.com>
wrote:


>  Hi Ron,

>

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>

> The WAVE tool is a Chrome extension, a small plugin for Chrome, so it does

> not work at all outside Chrome, by design. It is not assistive tech by

> itself, just a tool for developers to identify common errors like incorrect

> form labels and missing alternate text.

>

>

>

> In general, Chrome has a relatively weak accessibility API, so it does not

> play well with tools like NVDA or JAWS. For those readers, I recommend

> using Firefox or IE.

>

>

>

> -Sylvia

>

>

>

> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Ron Stewart

> *Sent:* Friday, July 10, 2015 6:49 PM

> *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Testing Web Accessibility

>

>

>

> Karen can you speak to how well the Chrome Wave tool works on non-Chrome

> environments. In my experience it does not provide  the same experience

> outside the Chrome environment. In particular in Windows based AT.

>

>

>

> Ron

>

>

>

> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu

> <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Karen

> Sorensen

> *Sent:* Friday, July 10, 2015 2:30 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Testing Web Accessibility

>

>

>

> Hi Jessica,

>

> The Chrome WAVE extension will work in your LMS (it's more up to date than

> the Firefox WAVE extension. )

> We do automated and manual testing at our institution to check online

> courses against WCAG 2.0 AA standards. When we encounter interactive

> elements however (elements that normally would require input with a mouse),

> we have end users of assistive technologies do usability testing.

> Interactive objects are not easily tested with automated tools or by manual

> testers who are not native users of AT. We currently have experienced JAWS

> and VoiceOver end users do testing for us of these interactive objects. We

> would like to add a Dragon user and a keyboard only user to our team.

>

> For our automated testing we use Sortsite and WAVE. But I just want to

> really stress that manual testing which we all realize is needed in

> addition to the automated testing, must actually include real end users.

> This is so often ignored, and I can tell you there really is no substitute.

> I'd be happy to share our testing process with anyone who is interested.

>

> Best,

>

> Karen

>

>

>

>       Karen M. Sorensen

> Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses

> www.pcc.edu/access

> Portland Community College

> 971-722-4720

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