Yeliz:
I'm copying the entire ACTF dev list to encourage everyone to use
it. We are evaluated as an eclipse project, in part, based on our
user/commiter interest as partially expressed in the email
archives. Also, this is a good way to share common questions and
answers with the entire ACTF community.
As to your questions...
1. The IBM Rule-based Accessibility Validation Environment (RAVEN)
is no longer supported as its functionality will be included in
the
ACTF validation components. You are right in that Webelo, the web
validation componentry, is not yet a part of ACTF; this commit
will
start in 2Q. The Java Validation Componentry (Javaco) will be
available very soon, most likely by week's end. It is, once again,
the IBM accessibility checklists that are included in the
validation documents. We are working on documentation for authors
who wish to write their own validation documents.
2. You can, of course, write your own validation document and, in
many cases, you will be required to write some jython in order to
do any type of sophisticated validation beyond what's supported in
the markup. The new release of this code supports javascript
rather
than jython and also a way to implement your own rules in Java.
The
API has changed significantly and continues to evolve. I cannot
provide full support for authoring a validation document for
RAVEN,
but I can answer specific questions as to how to implement rules.
--> Mike Squillace
IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
Austin, TX
W:512.823.7423
M:512.970.0066
masquill@xxxxxxxxxx
www.ibm.com/able
Yeliz Yesilada <yesilady@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
03/19/2008 09:59 AM
To
Michael A Squillace/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc
Simon HARPER <simon.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tianyi CHEN
<chent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject
Fwd: ACTF Meeting at CSUN 2008: Friday, March 14
Hi Michael,
I am contacting you from University of Manchester. In our
project, we
would like to mainly use webelo component. We have downloaded
RAVEN
and have been using it for a while. We have a number of questions
though:
As far as we can see with the latest version of RAVEN (Web
application validation part), you can only validate pages against
IBM
accessibility checklist which is encoded in the validation
document
"mozweb_accessibility.xml". In our project we are interested in
validating pages against a set of guidelines which will be a
kind of
sub-set of WCAG so it seems like we need to create our own
rulebase.
However, by looking at the documentation of RAVEN, it seems
like we
need to write scripts to do the validation? Is that right? or is
there an alternative/easier way of adding new rules/rulebases?
What
would be the best way to encode our rules? Would it be better to
download the source code from actf project (but it seems like
Webelo
component is not available) and start from there? or would it be
enough just to add our rulebase?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Yeliz
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On 17 Mar 2008, at 08:42, Simon HARPER wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Michael A Squillace <masquill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 March 2008 19:15:18 GMT
To: Simon HARPER <Simon.Harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ACTF Meeting at CSUN 2008: Friday, March 14
Simon:
I am the validation tech lead and can help with any questions
you
might
have. Pls feel free to ask on this list or get hold of me
directly.
BTW,
teh official name is no longer RAVEN but javaco for Java
Validation
Componentry and webelo for Web Validation Componentry. Javaco
wil
appear on
eclipse within the next few days and webelo components will
start
showing
up in 2Q.
--> Mike Squillace
IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
Austin, TX
W:512.823.7423
M:512.970.0066
masquill@xxxxxxxxxx
www.ibm.com/able
Simon HARPER
<Simon.Harper@man
chester.ac.uk> To
Kentarou Fukuda
03/14/2008 11:28 <KENTAROU@xxxxxxxxxx>
AM cc
<mpaciello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chieko Asakawa
<CHIE@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Daisuke Sato
<dsato@xxxxxxxxxx>,
david.bolter@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Ann
Ford/Austin/Contr/
IBM@IBMUS,
Hironobu Takagi
<takagih@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Hisashi
Miyashita
<himi@xxxxxxxxxx>,
jbigham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Michael
A Squillace/Austin/
IBM@IBMUS,
ram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
rscano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
sfaulkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
simon.bates@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Takashi 2
Itoh
<JL03313@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Kavitha
Teegala/Austin/Contr/
IBM@IBMUS,
ueki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
William S
Carter/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
yesilady@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Zeljko.Obrenovic@xxxxxx
Subject
Re: ACTF Meeting at CSUN
2008:
Friday, March 14
Hi Guys, sorry about the phone connection; we've a number of
questions regarding Raven etc. so it was unfortunate. Anyhow I
hope
you all have a safe trip home and hope to see you at the next
one.
Cheers
Si.
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Simon Harper
University of Manchester (UK)
Human Centred Web Lab: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk
My Site: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/harper/
My Diary (iCal): http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/diaries/
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