Welcome Web Accessibility Tool Consortium
Thursday, September 15th, 2005 at 11:20 amDevelopers of free accessibility testing tools have joined forces in the Web Accessibility Tool Consortium. Being a user of a lot of these tools, I welcome this as it means that instead of working against each other we can have a nice, integrated approach and brain-picking from a pool of good people.
The consortium includes some well-known accessibility players from all over the globe, as Gez Lemon put it:
WAT-C is a collaboration of some of the world’s leading accessibility practitioners. These developers of free web accessibility testing software & services include:
- Accessible Information Solutions [Australia]
- Infoaxia [Japan]
- Juicy Studio [UK]
- The Paciello Group [USA]
- Wrong HTML [Japan]
The consortium will promote and pursue software development goals including:
- Free web accessibility testing software
- Enhanced development of existing web accessibility testing tools
- The internationalization of web accessibility testing software
Now, if only screen reader development companies would catch that drift and come up with a developer edition that does not time out after 30 minutes or has other limitations…