{"id":2026,"date":"2013-09-11T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2013-09-11T08:59:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:59:59","slug":"evaluation-tools-web-tip-25-91113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation Tools, Web Tip #25, 9\/11\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Evaluation Tools<\/h2>\n<p><b>Difficulty:<\/b> Beginner<\/p>\n<p><b>Category:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Validation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Web accessibility evaluation has many aspects. No automated <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/tools\/\">evaluation tool<\/a> can tell you if your site is accessible. A good evaluation tool will guide a person through evaluation of true accessibility. While guidelines and checklists are useful, a site can be compliant to an accessibility guideline, standard, or checklist, yet still be totally inaccessible to some users. Screen reader or other user testing is a wonderful way to ensure accessibility for that user, but may not provide sufficient insight into true accessibility. Only a combination of effective automated testing, manual checks, and user testing will provide a good assurance of the accessibility of a site.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/\">WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2026\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evaluation Tools Difficulty: Beginner Category: Validation Web accessibility evaluation has many aspects. No automated evaluation tool can tell you if your site is accessible. A good evaluation tool will guide a person through evaluation of true accessibility. While guidelines and checklists are useful, a site can be compliant to an accessibility guideline, standard, or checklist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}