aDesigner and W3C standards
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I am a professor at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School in Boston. I am writing an article for scholarly publication on web accessibility for the blind, and have studied the websites of over 50 companies over the past 10 years using IBM's aDesigner and the Wayback Archive. I write to this forum to gain some understanding on how to relate the three elements in aDesigner (Compliance, Navigability, and Listenability) to W3C's WAI basic (minimal) standards? I am trying to figure out what scores on aDesigner represent passing scores on WAI; and what scores exceed the minimum?
Thank you.
Jonathan
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Hi Jonathan, and welcome to the forum.
I'm not sure about this myself but have put an appeal out on Twitter for answers - I know of a few of the people who were on the ACTF project team.
James Coltham - Local gov web manager by day, web and accessibility blogger at lunchtime, freelancer by night. Tweets at @prettysimple.
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Hi Jonathan,
This is, Hiro, an originator of the aDesigner. Thank you for using the tool for your research. I'm looking forward to read your research report!
As for the metrics, please check following paper.
"Proposing new metrics to evaluate web usability for the blind", ACM CHI2005
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1056808.1056923&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=72348461&CFTOKEN=93489754
All detailed assignments between guidelines items and scores are defined in some XML files. You can check those definitions in CVS repository on Eclipse as follows.
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.actf/org.eclipse.actf.visualization/plugins/org.eclipse.actf.visualization.eval/resources/checkitem.xml?root=Technology_Project&content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.actf/org.eclipse.actf.examples/plugins/org.eclipse.actf.examples.adesigner.eval.html/resources/checkitem.xml?root=Technology_Project&content-type=text%2Fplain&view=co
If you need, you can modify and try scores in your locally installed aDesigner.
Thanks
Hiro
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