Engine used by the Web Accessibility Observatory to carry out periodic iterations of the Observatory and offer an online diagnostic service for Public Administrations.
Helburuko egitea:
Public Administration Any
Usage:
Installable produktua, Network for end-users service
Solution of Type:
Open source aplikazioa
Status of the Solution:
Ekoizpena
Organic arloa:
State
Laguntza arloa
Webguneak, electronic and attention to the citizen headquarters
Functional arloa:
Government and public sector
Lizentzia:
EUPL (European Public License)
Interoperability level:
Laguntza
Programming language:
HTML, JSP, Web Services, XML
Deskribapena
The OAW Tracker is the tool that allows the Government of Spain to carry out the different iterations of the
Web Accessibility Observatory
(OAW) and the usage of the online diagnostic service available in the Community sarbidea
. The OAW Tracker allows the accessibility verification of a website and generates the automatic reports taking into account almost 100 check-points implemented in the platform, and also provides recommendations on how to solve the detected problems.
The accessibility review of the OAW is carried out using an automatic
metodologia BAT 139803:2012 based on the (WCAG 1.0).
, developed ad-hoc for the Web Accessibility Observatory. This methodology takes into account 20 accessibility verifications. Each verification is composed by many checks (more than 100 in total) that are executed automatically. Some of these checks are usually manual review, but they have been included through specialized metrics.
The OAW Tracker
allows the configuration of all the necessary parameters to carry out an observatory iteration
(list of web portals, web pages by portal, methodology, frequency, etc) and also allows to perform the execution process and review all
In addition., the allows it conclusions of the results and the generation reports beharrezkoa.
to obtain the accessibility overview in a sector and also to obtain the detailed reports for each web portal that contains all existing problems.
In addition, the OAW is used by the Tracker
Community in the service available on line Sarbidea diagnosia
in order to obtain an estimation, under demand, of which will be the results in an official iteration, ease the future correction and comparison of the possible errors present in the web portal.
The OAW Tracker analyzes more than 700 web portals twice in a year, which means roughly the analysis of 25.000 web pages in a year. Also, through the online diagnosis service it’s requested the analysis of more than 60.000 web pages per year.
From the technological point of view, this product has been built using free software tools and its provision is possible thanks to free software tools like apache, tomcat, mysql, etc.
The Governments of Argentina and of Costa Rica are already reusing the software for the monitoring of their national accessibility policies.
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