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| <H1>Compliance and accessibility guidelines for Web content</H1> |
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| The aDesigner can check the target page's compliance with the following four accessibility guidelines for Web content. |
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| <LI><A href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0)</A>: |
| One of the most popular and latest standards used for Web accessibility. |
| <LI><A |
| href="http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Web">Section |
| 508 of the Rehabilitation Act §1194.22 (Section 508)</A>: A list |
| of the Section 508 standards that provides criteria specific to Web-based intranet and Internet information and applications. |
| Section 508 requires that information technologies developed or purchased by the Federal Government be accessible to people with disabilities. |
| <LI>Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) X8341-3: Guidelines for information and communications equipment, software, and services for older people and people with disabilities issued by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee. |
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| <H2>Choosing accessibility guidelines to check</H2> |
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| To choose the accessibility guidelines to check: |
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| <LI>Click <B>Window</B> > <B>Preferences</B> > <B>ACTF</B> > <B>Guideline Checker</B>. |
| <LI>Select the accessibility guidelines you want aDesigner to use in |
| its accessibility and usability review.<BR> |
| <LI>Select the evaluation metrics you want aDesigner to use in its |
| accessibility and usability review.<BR> |
| <LI><A name="lineNumber">Select <B>Line Number Information</B> |
| check box if you want aDesigner to indicate the line on which a problem is detected in the blind mode. </A> |
| Line numbers are presented in the <A href="lineViewBlind.html">line |
| view</A> of the problem list.<BR> |
| If you want aDesigner to evaluate the runtime Document Object Model of |
| the target page, deselect this check box. (This is useful when checking certain |
| JavaScript-based pages.) |
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| <H2>Working with the problem list</H2> |
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| Two categories appear in the Tree View pane, Essential problems and User checks. |
| They are classified according to whether or not they are automatically detected. |
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| Essential problems are automatically detected by aDesigner and must be addressed. |
| The Essential problems category consists of both compliance problems and advanced problems detected by aDesigner. |
| User checks are problems that should be reviewed individually, and the |
| author must decide whether to resolve them or to postpone resolving |
| them (or to ignore them). |
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| In the Line View pane, each line shows the corresponding checkpoints of the selected accessibility guidelines. |
| The checkpoints of WCAG, Section 508, and JIS are specified in their own formats, with digits divided by a period (e.g. "13.6"), a letter (e.g. "o"), two digits and a letter divided by periods (e.g. "5.1.a"), or a digit (e.g. "8"), respectively. |
| These formats and the corresponding descriptions and techniques you can use to address each problem are described at the websites of these guidelines. |
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| The help pages are available by right-clicking a line and |
| selecting <B>View Help</B> from the context menu. |
| The context menus are also available by pressing Shift+F10. |
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| <LI><A href="problemsBlind.html">Accessibility and usability problems for blind users</A> |
| <LI><A href="problemsLv.html">Accessibility and usability problems for users with low vision</A> |
| <li><a href="odf/guideline.html">ODF Accessibility Check list</a></li> |
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