This page contains material related to a presentation at the Web Accessibility Best Practices Evaluation Training in Paris, France in July 2004. It is not intended to stand-alone; rather, it is primarily provided as reference material for participants in the training.
Scope of Training and Materials: This one-day training focused on select topics that were particularly suited to the circumstances of this specific hands-on training session. It did not to cover all aspects of evaluating Web accessibility, and did not cover all Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 checkpoints.
No Endorsement or Recommendation of Evaluation Tools: W3C/WAI does not endorse Web accessibility evaluation tools and does not recommend one tool over another. Some tools were listed, demonstrated, and used in activities in this training. Mention of a specific tool does not imply endorsement nor recommendation. WAI does provide a comprehensive list of Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility.
Reporting Web Accessibility Evaluation
Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C WAI
Last updated: 15 July 2004
Goal-based Reporting Examples
From Example Evaluation Situations and Parameters
- Awareness, Outreach
- Encouraging, educating, referring
- Consultant
- On-going Monitoring
- Planning, Training
- Executive summary
- Plan of action
- Details, examples, references
- Benchmarking
Report
- Executive Summary
- Short
- Target to specific audience, goals of report
- Start and end positively, encouraging (yet realistic)
- Initial presentation, written report highlights
- Follow up meeting for clarifications, questions
For Detailed Reports
- Based on how report to be used
- Probably not order by checkpoints
- Usually grouped by topic, sometimes by priority, or effort
- Make sort-able by
- checkpoint number
- checkpoint priority
- status (yes, no, n/a, etc.)
- implementation effort
Examples in Reports
- "A picture is worth a thousand words"
- From
- HTML markup
- Rendered page in browser
- Validator or evaluation tool
- Assistive technology
More Report Tips
- Include screen grabs (in report & before evaluation), date reviewed (credibility)
- List of pages with focus (form, table, form)
- Not repeat (for example, same header)
- Start with master report template
- WAI Resource: Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports