[Accessibility-ia2] Requirements for IA2 tooling

[Michael A Squillace]

Pete and all:
The IBM Rule-based Accessibility Validation Environment (RAVEN) is an 
Eclipse-based tool for validating Java rich-client and web rich-client 
GUIs/content at runtime. The new release, slated for Alphaworks in the 
next week or so, supports precisely the tipe of validation discussed 
below. 

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/raven

RAVEN uses XML documents called validation documents to codify and process 
validation rules that embody different checklists or guidelines (eg 508, 
IBM accessibility Checklists, WCAG 2.0). The new release (2.0.0) will 
contain an IA2 validation document, which, for now, contains rules 
codifying the IBM Software Accessibility Checklist:

http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/software/accesssoftware.html

Extensive documentation on RAVEN and its essential technologies are 
included in the Eclipse help system in the release. Please feel free to 
contact me for further details.



--> Mike Squillace
IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
Austin, TX

W:512.823.7423
M:512.970.0066

masquill at us.ibm.com
www.ibm.com/able



Pete Brunet/Austin/IBM
01/31/2007 10:16 PM

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Christian, We can't afford to duplicate Raven's feature set. 

Mike, Do you have anything to share with the IA2 community regarding Raven 
and any possible support for IA2 and any possible availability 
information?

Christian, The current plan is to write the tool Python.  One of the 
requirements we've received is for scripting support but we haven't 
started to think about how that would be done yet.  We can add IDispatch 
to IA2 at some point if needed, but the AT vendors did not have a 
requirement for it.  If you have ideas on how scripting support should be 
added please start a new thread and we'll have that information captured 
for later.

Pete Brunet
                                                                          
IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development
11501 Burnet Road, MS 9022E004, Austin, TX 78758
Voice: (512) 838-4594, TL 678-4594, Fax: (512) 838-9666
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"Cohrs, Christian" <christian.cohrs at sap.com> 
01/17/2007 03:46 AM

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Hi Pete,
 
a nice thing would be a tool that scans a UI screen at runtime and checks 
if accessibility information is available as required. Something like 
Raven, for example. Could be rules based or people just adjust the source 
code according to their requirements. What kind of language/framework will 
you use for the tools? Some languages such as VBS or JScript require 
IDispatch, so that might be an issue.
 
Best regards,
Christian 

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Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] Requirements for IA2 tooling


We are starting to create the open source MSAA/IA2 tooling that will be 
similar to AccExplorer, AccEvent, Inspect32, at-poke, py-poke.   

If you are interested in the feature set, please send your requirements. 

Pete Brunet
                                                                         
IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development
11501 Burnet Road, MS 9022E004, Austin, TX 78758
Voice: (512) 838-4594, TL 678-4594, Fax: (512) 838-9666
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