Need 508 Compliance Testing Software that can test php pages
Hi,
I am looking for a 508 Compliance testing software that is able to test against php pages. I believe that many of these crawlers have a difficult time testing against dynamic pages. I was hoping for a few examples of software that can test against php pages. Thanks in advance for any responses.
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I doubt you're going to find a tool designed to test raw unprocessed code of any type, PHP or other. That tool would basically have to execute all the code itself and then analyze the resulting HTML. At that point, nothing has been gained by building a PHP-accessibility-checker.
On my last project I believe we used ACCVerify against a web app. I'd have to assume there'd be a tool that could handle dynamic sites since that's what probably 99.999999% of sites are these days.
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Hi dopefish,
Thanks for the reply. We have been using AccVerify but AccVerify was returning "404 Page Not Found" error message for many of our pages even though we could reach those pages with no issues. It may also be that the AccVerify version we have is old enough that it does not work properly with modern webservers. We can no longer use this AccVerify because we would need an unlock code and the company that made AccVerify will no longer supply this to us as AccVerify has been discontinued. They do have a new product but it is expensive. Do you or anyone else know of any other 508 Compliance testing software other than AccVeriy (or it's replacement High Sheriff)? Thanks.
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Sorry I can't be more helpful. It's been a few years since I've used AccVerify (didn't know it had been discontinued) and I'm not familiar with other tools. My feeling is that depending on the complexity of the application, automated testing isn't going to help you with more than ALT text, basic table headers, field labels, possibly document structure. If it's a full web app there's going to be a lot more than this to be evaluated such as keyboard access, meaningful text labels, proper focus management, etc. If there's a tool that really does all that I'd love to know too!
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Hi dopefish,
Thanks for your reply. If anyone else knows of any software for testing 508 Compliance I would love to hear about it. Thanks.
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