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A New Generation in Testing Accessibility

A New Generation in Testing Accessibility Gian Sampson-Wild www.purpletop.com.au/purplecop The Old Way of Testing What you do: Insert your URL A program runs You receive a result The Old Way of Testing What you get: One Size Fits All Single page / Max 2000 pages

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A New Generation in Testing Accessibility

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  1. A New Generation in Testing Accessibility Gian Sampson-Wild www.purpletop.com.au/purplecop

  2. The Old Way of Testing • What you do: • Insert your URL • A program runs • You receive a result

  3. The Old Way of Testing • What you get: • One Size Fits All • Single page / Max 2000 pages • Yes & No answers to the WCAG • False positives and false negatives • Checkpoints that aren’t tested

  4. The Old Way of Testing • Who provides these things: • Bobby • Cynthia Says • AccessValet • Hermish • AskAlice

  5. A New Generation of Testing • What if you could… • …not just identify images with missing alt attributes, but compare each image with its alt attribute • …narrow down the pages you need to review for use of colour, change in language, use of tables

  6. A New Generation of Testing • PurpleCop is an automated testing tool developed by PurpleTop • It collates various tags and text in your site so that you can review them for accessibility compliance

  7. A New Generation of Testing • PurpleCop takes the guesswork out of accessibility testing • It allows, you, the owner of the site to decide whether an issue is an accessibility failure or not

  8. A New Generation of Testing • Who has used PurpleCop: • Australian Centre for the Moving Image • Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games • City of Port Phillip Council • Scope Victoria • DHS Companion Card

  9. A New Generation of Testing • “Over the past year ACMI has found that PurpleCop reports are a great resource to help meet out site’s accessibility commitment. It provides useful, user-friendly feedback that targets only the areas of the site that need our attention.” • Andrew RobinsonACMI Web Manager

  10. Case Studies • ACMI • 25+ sub-sites • 2,000+ pages • 100+ content authors • 100MB+ site

  11. Case Studies • This morning a sheet was circulated requesting URLs to test. • These are the results.

  12. Questions? • Contact Gian for further information: • Mobile: 0404 498 030 • Email: gian@purpletop.com.au • URL: www.purpletop.com.au/purplecop

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