Recently Google Labs released Google Accessible Search – Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged. Running the search page (http://labs.google.com/accessible/) through RAAKT (using the online version) yields three errors and the search result page is using tables for layout. Maybe I am missing something here, but how hard can it be for Google to make [...]
Archive for the 'Accessibility' Category
Automated accessibility tests in Ruby on Rails
A couple of days ago I released RAAKT – The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit gem (I know, it really needs a better name). RAAKT is a gem that can be used independently of Rails and my plan was to make a Rails plugin that would add a custom assert method that did the check. It [...]
Porting the Python Accessibility Analysis Kit to Ruby
At RailsConf in Chicago I realized that it would be a good idea to port PAAKT to Ruby and make sure it can be used for automatic accessibility tests in the Rails testing framework. Work has begun and I hope to release it at the end of this summer if all goes well. The project [...]
PAAKT: The Python Accessibility Analysis Kit version 0.51
PAAKT is a Pyhon module with which you can analyze accessibility in web pages. This release is to enable testing of real web pages (instead of the fake ones in the unit tests). For details see the PAAKT project page.






