than dynamically generated sites.
Something that spiders a site is better IMHO. Because you can get the
interactions, especially if you are doing a lot of includes
Also LIFT and any other accessibility checker is fine for those
accessibility items that can be programatically checked for, but it cannot
check for all items in accessibility. ie, it can check to make sure alt tags
are included for each image, but those alt tags actually have to have good
information in it.
Section 508 1194.22(a) states: A text equivalent for every non-text element
shall be provided. So in order to make sure that it really hits 508(a),
human intervention is needed. All an accessibility checker can do is tell
you whether there is an alt tag there or not, which isn't enough.
I.E.
<img alt="" />
<img alt="picture" />
<img alt="Man loading the trunk of his car" />
While all the above will validate in an accessibility validator, only the
third one is truly accessible, since it actually describes the image in
detail.
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From: George Abraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:51 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: SOT: LIFT for DWMX 2004
Hi,
Has anyone here used LIFT for DWMX 2004? If so, what are your
experiences/recommendations? For those not in the know: LIFT is the
accessibility tool designed to work with Dreamweaver.
URL: http://www.usablenet.com/products_services/lift_dw/lift_dw.html
TIA,
George
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