New Accessibility Checker

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Source: http://blog.rbenson.info/

I am not sure what to say about the AChecker by 34a Labs… Nice first try maybe?

Why am I so harsh?

Well, I instinctively put in my site. One of the “potential problems” reported is the following”

Tabular information may be missing table markup.

Well I am sorry to say, nothing on the page in question has a table, nor data of any kind that makes it look like a table. So if you try this checker, I wouldn’t take the results to heart quite ...

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rguy84 3 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

@johnfoliot You asked why thumbs down to AChecker, I said to check my blog post (http://is.gd/4xSDY). Then said something about php errors.

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Ryan 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

So 34aLabs is developing it for ATutor?

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Robert Yonaitis 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Forgot to say the site is a host site for AChecker: http://www.atutor.ca/achecker/ We are building Distributions and Implementations of the open source solution and contributing back

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Ryan 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

The page is my home page: http://rbenson.info/, I know I have a few errors…. I am quite familiar with WebAIM’s WAVE. I have not head of CKEditor yet, but will take a look at it.

Nice to meet you also.

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Robert Yonaitis 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Ryan,

First thanks for the comments. We figure the beta should last like 30 days and I hope to get you back for another try after the beta.

If you can send the page tested we can maybe make it better! But you gave us some information to go on and we appreciate it.

A “Great” tool like WebAIM’s WAVE, http://wave.webaim.org/, gives you great color markup
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rguy84 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

@ryonaitis Here is my post http://is.gd/4uqXI

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