Hello Liz
The University of Dundee service is DMAG (Digital Media Access Group) -
further details from http://www.dmag.org.uk/.
Although Bobby will check a website against the W3C WCAG (World Wide Web
Consortium World Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), common sense and
user testing are just as important, as it is possible to have an
accessible web site which is not user friendly. Many of the results from
a Bobby check will require some web developer input to ensure that what
Bobby thinks could be an error, actually is or is not an error - hence the
need for common sense.
HTML code should also be checked to ensure that it is accurate - see W3C
Markup Validator - http://validator.w3.org/. Also any CSS (Cascading
Style Sheets) - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ as this will give any
assistive technologies a greater chance of being able to render the
content correctly.
There are various web accessibility tools and validators, although Bobby
is probably the only one which actually allows you to add a compliance
statement, e.g:
* A-Prompt Web Accessibility Verifier - http://www.aprompt.ca/
* Cynthia Says (similar to Bobby) - http://www.cynthiasays.com/
* Wave Accessibility Tool - http://www.wave.webaim.org/index.jsp
* Web Accessibility Toolbar -
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/
* WebXact (also from Watchfire) - http://webxact.watchfire.com/
Hope that helps.
Best Regards
Sharon.
Sharon Perry
Accessibility SIG (Special Interest Group) Co-ordinator
CETIS (Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards)
University of Wales Bangor.
Web: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/accessibility.
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