  This article was originally printed in the April 2003 issue (Vol 9, No. 4)
About the Authors Dan Voss is the Special Needs SIG Manager and a member of the Orlando Chapter. |
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| Usability Interface |
Web Accessibility Test Tool Available Free to K-12 Students
By Dan Voss
The HiSoftware Company has announced the availability of a free version of its popular Cynthia Says Web accessibility test tool for use by grade school and secondary school students.
The software being offered is the AccVerify Cynthia Says Edition, which the company has said it will also make available to other users at a nominal cost
"We believe this supports our goals of education and outreach and that it is important to teach young Web developers to create accessible Web content as they learn to create Web pages," declared HiSoftware spokeswoman Dana Louise Simberkoff.
Launched by HiSoftware in partnership with the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet and the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter, Cynthia Says provides testing of Web sites for compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and W3C Web accessibility standards.
For further information on Cynthia Says or the free AccVerify edition, the reader is referred to danalouise@hisoftware.com.
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