[Athen] EASI Free Webinar on firefox extension tool Functional Accessibility Evaluator Thur Dec. 3

[Prof Norm Coombs]

  EASI Free Webinar on firefox extension tool Functional Accessibility
  Evaluator Thur Dec. 3

Most of us often want to evaluate an item that we actually don't 
understand well. Happily there tools to do it for us!

Jon Gunderson from the University of Illinois will demonstrate this on 
Thursday December 3.


    Functional Accessibility Evaluator, AInspector Sidebar and
    Accessibility Bookmarklets

Thursday Dec. 3: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern 
standard

The Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0 is designed to evaluate 
and summarize the accessibility of an entire website and AInspector 
Sidebar is a Firefox add-on to inspect and highlight accessibility 
problems and features on individual pages. Both tools are open source 
tools and they evaluate accessibility based on the requirements of the 
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) 2.0. WCAG 2.0 is an 
international standard and part of the Section 508 refresh for 
information technology.

Open source tools can be freely used and customized for individual needs 
and use the OpenAjax Evaluation Library. New Accessibility bookmarklets 
to provide visualizations of typically hidden accessibility information 
will also be demonstrated.

Tool Information

Ainspector Sidebar (for Firefox)is a An Firefox Add-on to evaluate the 
current DOM of a web page for WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA requirements at: 
http://ainspector.github.io/

Functional Accessibility Evaluator 2.0 Spiders a website for WCAG 2.0 
Level A and AA requirements and generates a summary report 
http://fae20.cita.illinois.edu/

Accessibility Bookmarklets is a browser add-ons that help make hidden 
accessibility information visible to sighted developers 
http://accessibility-bookmarklets.org

This will help you to have confidence in your work to provide accessible 
information online.

Register for the Dec. 3 free webinar

http://easi.cc/clinic.htm#december

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