New functionality in Truwex Online Validation Tool.
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We are presenting a new updated version of the Truwex Online Validation Tool. Our main desire is to make it convenient for users. This Tool will be a part of a new release of Truwex product, version 2.0 due in the end of March, 2007. We are happy to hear your feedback to improve Truwex for your needs.
Home Page Accessibility Selectors
Truwex validation results presentation was improved to better display a web page compliance with two most common accessibility standards: the US Section 508 of rehabilitation act and W3C WCAG, version 1. A user can select a web accessibility standard to validate: (1) Section 508 or WCAG Priorities 1 and 2. Accessibility checkbox (2) triggers all accessibility checks.. Report warnings checkbox (3) enables warnings for manual inspection. It can be disabled to work only with automatically detected issues.
The validation results page now displays compliance summary on all checks. The first column (1) reports a web page status on automatic checks. The second column (2) shows number of detected issues and warnings for manual inspection.
Truwex validates other accessibility issues (beyond the Section 508 and WCAG priorities 1, 2) and points for manual checks. To manage them expand Accessibility category.
WCAG 2.0 Luminosity Contrast Formula
Truwex automatically validates text/background color contrast and brightness on web pages using WCAG 1.0 formula and WCAG 2.0 luminosity contrast formula. Comparing results of WCAG 1 and 2 formulas, we discovered that Erigami.com website is compliant with the WCAG 1 requirement. However not all color/background combinations fit the WCAG 2 requirement!
However there are color/background combinations, which are compliant with WCAG 2.0 but not compliant with WCAG 1.
Improved Web Page Map
Web page Map displays issues on a web page screenshot. We upgraded Web Page Map functionality to make the tool more user friendly:
• The Issue tab provides links (1) to select eligible issues and warnings on Map.
• New “All” option (2) highlights all issues of the same type on a web page map.
• All Issues and Warnings on the left pane are sorted according to the tool home page order.
New type of validation result: Warnings.
The new Truwex Online Tool includes Warnings, points for manual checks. All validation checks are separated now into Errors and Warnings. It is hard coded in the Online version. However Truwex product version 2.0 will provide a choice (1): every quality check can be assigned Error or Warning status. That helps to prioritize action items.
Thank you for the feedback!
We express our respect to Cecil Ward, who provided very useful feedback for Truwex. We incorporated it into the new Truwex version.
Entry Filed under: Truwex News, Web Accessibility
6 Comments
1. Dave Morley | May 8th, 2007 at 9:09 am
convinient ?
2. Vladimir Popov | May 8th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Hi Dave,
what do you mean?
3. Cecil Ward | June 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Testing the page http://tosg.org.uk using Truwex 2.0 gives the following “issue” report:
508 (G),(H)] [WCAG 5.1,5.2 (1)] Data table without headers is found
I simply don’t understand this. I believe that the data table in that page is marked appropriately - I used the Accessible Table Builder tool at http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/table-builder/ to generate a reference structure.
What do you think?
Cecil Ward.
4. Cecil Ward | June 29th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Testing the above web page produces an “issue” report,
WCAG-2 1.4 (2)] Low luminosity contrast text is found
The quoted colours are text=#666666/background=#FCFCFC, for which a luminosity contrast ratio is given as 1 (!)
Using the tool at http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php gives me a luminosity contrast ratio of 5.6
Best,
Cecil Ward.
5. Cecil Ward | June 30th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Testing the above URL with Truwex 2.0 gives an “issue” report
“Privacy policy link is missing”
This error report is inappropriate. The site has a tested policy - Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are successfully able to display both the machine-readable and human-readable privacy policy statements (IE7 View | Web Page Privacy Policy) and the site has passed P3P testing with the W3C’s P3P http://www.w3.org/P3P/validator.html (results at http://validator.w3.org/p3p/20020128/p3p.pl?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tosg.org.uk ).
The problem may be that the Truwex tool does not understand the “well-known location” method of locating the privacy policy - see http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment#Deployment - method #1.
6. ik | July 2nd, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Hi Cecil,
Thank you for your questions, your feedback is always valuable for us. We examined your page with Truwex and did some fixes.
1) Data table without headers issue.
This was a bug. We fixed it.
2) Luminosity contrast ratio is equal to 1.
This was a bug too. We fixed the formula. Now it gives ratio 3.33 for #30A000 / #FCFCFC colour combination and ratio 3.5 for #E06000 / #FCFCFC. All other combinations on your page are ok.
3) Missing privacy policy link.
Truwex detects that your website has p3p policy defined. You may check Inventory tab and expand “Privacy”.
The real question is missing privacy link a bug or not? In our opinion, for the most of business websites the answer is “yes”. The most visitors of corporate websites are not aware about p3p. They simply do not know that they can check privacy policy in their browsers. Therefore the companies publish their privacy policy on a web page and link to it from other website pages. To answer your request, we may move missing privacy link to warnings in Truwex Online Tool.
Regards,
Irina Kochetova
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