Features and benefits
IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition helps ensure Web site accessibility to all users by monitoring for over 170 comprehensive accessibility checks. It helps determine the site's level of compliance with government standards, including the U.S. government's Section 508 and guidelines such as the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C WCAG), the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, France's AccessiWeb, and other international standards.
Benefits:
Reduces online risk by isolating accessibility and privacy compliance issues
Saves significant development and test time - using the new Policy Tester Dynamic Browser Assessment Plug-in, development and QA can now dynamically scan applications for accessibility, and the prioritized issues can be remediated early in the development cycle
Reduces costs by catching accessibility issues in Web applications and content early in the development and test process, automates previously manual tasks
Immediately renders accessibility issues to developers or testers while they operate the page to effectively assess today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) content
Provides visibility and control of regulatory compliance challenges to all levels of the organization
Provides faster remediation by identifying issues more quickly than manual tracking, and reduces the risk of human error
Accessibility reports include:
W3C WCAG Issues Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when Web pages are tested against the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 level A and AA. Using the information in this report, you can isolate and repair instances of a specific accessibility issue or group of accessibility issues relating to the 2.0 Priority level.
Section 508 Issues Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when web pages are tested against the U.S. Section 508 guidelines. This information can be used to isolate and repair instances of a specific U.S. Section 508 accessibility issue.
AccessiWeb Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when web pages are tested against the French AccessiWeb standard. AccessiWeb criteria are divided into three categories of severity: Bronze, Silver and Gold and can be reviewed by criteria, page or check.
Custom Accessibility Guidelines Report identifies accessibility issues you want reported. This enables you to see reports that are applicable to your internal accessibility policies.
