[Accessibility_sig] Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator: Sign up for free user acount

[Sharron Rush]

University of Illinois has released the latest version of its very useful - 
and FREE - web site testing tool....



A new version of the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator (FAE 
v. 0.9.2) is now available:

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

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Register for a free user account at:

http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/register.php.

Benefits of user account:
1. View only reports you make when logged in
2. Archive reports up to 6 months

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New features in Version 0.9.2:

1. Archived Reports list only those reports you create when logged into 
your user account

2. Fixed problems with character encodings and special characters.

3. HTML content stored in the results file (currently the title content) is 
assumed to be ISO-8859-1 and all named character entities defined for XHTML 
1.0 are recognized.

4. A problem was fixed with proper escaping of ampersand ('&') characters 
in URLs.

5. Fixed problem with the test for form controls and labels. FAE now 
additionally detects 'input' elements with 'type' attribute value of 
'checkbox' or 'radio'.

6. A problem in wget was fixed that prevented page requisites such as 
images from being downloaded and analyzed when 'Follow links in next-level 
subdomains' was selected.

7. Added favicon image for all FAE pages.

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248
Cell: (217) 714-6313

E-mail: jongund at uiuc.edu

WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/