[Accessibility-ia2] Requirements for IA2 tooling

Cohrs, Christian christian.cohrs at sap.com
Sat Feb 3 07:37:58 PST 2007


Hi Mike,
 
that sounds really exciting. Please let me know once it is available, I
think this will be very valuable.
 
Thanks!
 
Best regards,
Christian

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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

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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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Sent: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2007 03:24
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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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