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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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TAW3 - free accessibility testing and reporting tool

November 3rd, 2005

Spotted via Accessify.com.
TAW3 is a free tool to test web pages against WCAG 1.0, developed by the Fundación CTIC. It is available both as an online version (which only offers a basic, single page check) and as a powerful stand-alone java application for a variety of platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris, among others).

I’ve took it for a test drive and really liked the clean interface, easy configuration of what checkpoints to report on and how it then reports automatic check failures and manual check warnings. You can drill down very easily into any errors and the view source pane at the bottom of the screen enables you to get to the suspect code very quickly.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 at 8:10 pm and is filed under Accessibility, Web Apps.

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