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Presenter(s)
Michael Cooper
Watchfire
1 Hines Rd
Kanata, ON K2K 3C7 Canada
Phone: +1 613 599-3888 x4019
Email: michaelc@watchfire.com
The Accessibility module of Watchfire® WebXM™ is an automated enterprise Web accessibility assessment solution that significantly extends the scalability and features of Watchfire's popular desktop tool, Bobby. The Accessibility module is a scalable solution designed to assist organizations in achieving and maintaining an accessible website. Integration with quality, privacy, analytics and security analysis modules allows data to be correlated and issues can be prioritized appropriately. The accessibility module is designed primarily for large enterprises but can also be used by mid-sized organizations through a Managed Service Provider option.
The updated release provides a number of enhancements to support the discovery and management of accessibility issues on a website. Important new features include:
• Support for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, the French AccessiWeb standard, and other new accessibility guidelines
• Ability to tune automated evaluation to a particular site for greater accuracy
• Greater proportion of automated to manual evaluations
• Assisted manual evaluation support
• Issue management allowing compliance reports to include only issues that were manually deemed applicable
• Ability to modify evaluation logic or implement custom evaluations
• Report format improvements and greater selection of views
The presentation will focus on a demonstration and discussion of the new features of this product.
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