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Evaluating web accessibility: resources overview.

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Evaluation helps you ensure that your websites

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and applications meet accessibility requirements.

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Ideally you evaluate regularly throughout
the design and development process.

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This way you find errors early and avoid costly
repairs later in the process.

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The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, W-A-I, or WAI,

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provides free resources to help you with your evaluation.

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"Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility"
explains how you can do some checks yourself.

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Even if you are new to web accessibility and
not technical,

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these checks give you a rough idea of the accessibility of any web page.

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WAI also maintains a "Web Accessibility Evaluation
Tools List" that you can filter.

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"Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools"
explains what tools can and cannot do.

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For more experienced evaluators, WAI provides
"WCAG-EM",

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the "Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology".

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The "WCAG-EM Report Tool" helps you record
the findings as you follow the methodology.

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To help you better understand how different
users experience your website and applications,

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WAI provides guidance in "Involving Users
in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility"

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and "Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility".

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With all these resources, you can learn how to check your website for accessibility and

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prioritize the issues you need to address first.

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Web accessibility: essential for some, useful for all.

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For resources on evaluating web accessibility visit w3.org/WAI/evaluation