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Re: Fw: Call for review: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
From:
Rosemary Ernst <[log in to unmask]>
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* EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
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Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:23:21 -0500
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:50:58 -0400, David Poehlman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Judy Brewer" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "WAI Interest Group" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:41 PM
>Subject: Call for review: Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
>
>
>Dear WAI Interest Group Members:
>
>W3C/WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) invites your
>comments
>on the draft WAI Resource "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility"
>         http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/
>This document provides background on evaluating Web sites for
>accessibility. It describes how to do a "preliminary review," and a
>comprehensive "conformance evaluation," and provides advice on ongoing
>monitoring of Web sites for accessibility.
>
>Please send comments by Wednesday, Oct 31, 2001, to
>         [log in to unmask]
>Comment archives are available at
>         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-eo-editors/
>
>Discussion is also welcome on the WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) mailing
>list
>         [log in to unmask]
>WAI IG archives are available at
>         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/
>
>"Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" is one page of the WAI Resource
>Suite "Customizing a Business Case and Implementation Plan for Web
>Accessibility," currently available in early draft form at:
>         http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/
>         (this latter link is provided for context only at this stage;
>it
>is not ready for comment)
>More information about the Education and Outreach Working Group is
>available at
>         http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
>
>This message may be circulated to other lists. Please be careful to
>avoid
>cross-postings.
>
>Thank you in advance for your review,
>
>- Judy
>
>--
>Judy Brewer    [log in to unmask]    +1.617.258.9741
>http://www.w3.org/WAI
>Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium
>(W3C)
>MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA,  02139,
>USA

This WAI document suggests the use of IBM's Home Page Reader to as a voice
browser to use for testing. Has anyone used this product? How does it
compare to JAWS or Window Eyes?

Rosemary Ernst
Web Developer

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