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Guide for Web Accessibility Checking tools

How to Read an Acc Monitor Report

AccMonitor is an enterprise test management system that provides an interface for testing content against standards for quality, searchability and accessibility. This system allows for the ATI Coordinators to test the various departments and/or colleges against the 508 Standards. To find out more information pertaining to 508 Standards, please reference the following resources:

The AccMonitor Application

Below describes the sections of AccMonitor, and briefly gives a description of what information is covered in each section.

View of Acc Summary Report outlining 5 regions

  1. List of links scanned by AccMonitor.

    2. View of a List of links

  2. Overall summary of the report listing passed and failed pages with a graph of the data.

    3. View of a graph of the passed and failed web pages

  3. Error Checkpoint Summary: This section lists the Section 508 Check points which can be verified by AccMonitor.

    4. View of Error Checkpoint Summary

    For example: 508 Standards, Section 1194.22, (a): 118

    • The number associated with this check point is 118. 118 is the number of items found among the URLs that has a "alt", or "longdesc."

    Section 508 1194.22 (a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).

  4. Visual Checkpoint Summary: This section lists the Section 508 Check points that require visual (or Manual) checking.

    5. View of Visual Checkpoint Summary

    For example: 508 Standards, Section 1194.22, (g): 19

    • The number associated with this check point is 19. 19 is the number of items found among the URLs that may require Row and Column headers

    Section 508 1194.22 (g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.

  5. Visual Verification Summary: Graph listing how many pages require visual (manual) checking and how many do not. In this example, it stated that at least 202 files need to be checked MANUALLY, and only 8 pages DO NOT REQUIRE MANUAL CHECKS. In other words, in spite of a 99% passing rate, over 95% of these need manual checks to verify the accurate passing number.

    6. View of Visual Verification Summary

The above information gives an overview of the tool used at the enterprise level. The next section will begin to cover tools that can be used by end-users who want to perform manual checking themselves. The section that starts off this catagory is entitled AIS Toolbar (for Internet Explorer).

8/26/09