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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">We're going to be looking for software to do self-audits for accessibility compliance. The tools commonly mentioned are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">DeQue workspace<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SSB Bart AMP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">SiteImprove<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Has anyone had any experience with IBM's Rational Policy Tester? (the current successor to Bobby)
<a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/">http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/policy/</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Apparently it will do WCAG 2.0, as documented: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/sulrich/entry/what_s_new_in_rational_policy_tester_8_01?lang=en">
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/sulrich/entry/what_s_new_in_rational_policy_tester_8_01?lang=en</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in">IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility, Privacy and Quality Editions V8.0 includes the following enhancements:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> Enhanced WCAG 2.0 compliance assessment capabilities, including WAI-ARIA (a standard for making Rich Internet Applications accessible)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> New tooling for testing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for accessibility issues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> Enhanced scan engine performance, especially for sites using JavaScript<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> Enhanced support for automatically exploring and testing applications based on Ajax frameworks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> Enhanced support for automatically exploring and testing WebSphere Portal applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"> Enhanced REST API, providing the ability to create and run scans programmatically<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The things we're looking for tool to be able to do are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">a) the ability to handle dynamic content and provide a script (username & password, submit X in field Y, select radio button Z, etc.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">b) the ability to track site-wide progress on specific accessibility measures over time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">c) the ability to manually crawl through a site (for example, so a human can answer randomly generated test questions to proceed to the next page) and perform an accessibility analysis at various points through the crawl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">d) the ability to have custom rules (i.e. all of 508 and select rules from WCAG 2.0 A, AA, and AAA, but not everything at all levels)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">e) the ability to have different levels of users run the tool on their own site without being able to monkey around with enterprise level settings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">f) reports that are easy for a novice to understand what needs to be remediated<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">g) a decent licensing scheme ... something like concurrent use (so that we can train a couple hundred people how to use it but don't have to pay for hundreds of licenses if there's only a handful using it concurrently)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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