Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Get Tooled Up:’Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox’, Ariadne Issue 44
Often developers lack time or training and simply rely on one of the many automated testing tools such as WebXACT [5], Cynthia [6] or Wave [7]. But even those mechanical checks need to be supplemented (and, to avoid false positives, counter-checked) by manual checks.
Based on some of the WCAG 1.0 checkpoints, this article aims to provide a quick outline of how Mozilla Firefox and the Web Developer toolbar can help with these manual checks.
Website Design — laura
