The spanish state maintained, since the year 2010, the Observatory crawler of Web accessibility, to the objectives of monitoring, reporting and follow-up at the spanish state. Accordingly,
in the new european context, in which all member states will have to work to monitor the accessibility of its public web sites, the ministry of finance and Public Service has decided to release their tool for internal use as free software
. In this way, could be exploited by other states or institutions to carry out periodic revisions of accessibility.
The Public Sector english already has at your disposal for years the free use of diagnostic service on line
Accessibility community
to be necessary Only to register in it.
Tracker OAW is the tool that enables carrying out
the various iterations of
Web accessibility observatory (OAW)
and the use of diagnostic service available online through Community of Accessibility
. The Sniffer OAW can verify the accessibility of a website and automatic generation of reports from nearly 100 audits implemented in the platform, while providing recommendations on how to solve the problems identified.
The revision of accessibility OAW studies with a automatic methodology based on standard UNE 139803:2012
Metodologia Observatory of WEB accessibility
(WCAG 2.0), developed specifically for the Observatory of Web Accessibility. This methodology takes into account Only 20 accessibility checks. And each verification is composed by a number of checks that are performed automatically. It has also been possible to include some checks usually review manual metric through specialized.
OAW tracker
allows you to all the parameters for a iteration
the observatory (portals, pages by portal, methodology, frequency, etc.) and of course to implement and monitor the entire process of implementation and verification
. It creates the reports of findings and results
requirements to both the overview of status of accessibility in a particular domain as get the detailed reports for each portal to facilitate the resolution of existing problems.
In addition the sniffer OAW is used by the
diagnostic service available online in the community Accessibility
to obtain an estimate, on demand, which would be the outcome on each iteration. To facilitate the future correction and collation of any errors in the portal.
Tracker OAW analyses of twice a year more than 700 portals representing the official analysis of approximately 25,000 pages. Likewise, through the diagnostic service line is requested in the analysis of more than 60,000 pages annually.
Technologically, product is constructed from free software tools that in addition to its provision has also been utilized free products, such as apache tomcat, mysql, etc. This tool was developed initially by the former INTECO. After its transformation in the current
INCIBE
, over all source code and materials were assigned to the MINHAFP has given continuity to the product and that now, once released, offers all possible stakeholders.
Released the Spanish Web Accessibility Observatory Tracker tool with EUPL v1.2 license
The OAW Tracker is the tool that allows the Government of Spain perform the different iterations of the
Web Accessibility Observatory
(OAW) and the usage of the online diagnosis service available from the Accessibility Community
. The OAW Tracker allows the accessibility verification of a website and generates the automatic reports taking in consideration almost 100 check-points implemented in the platform, and also provide recommendations about how to solve the detected problems.
The accessibility review of the OAW is performed by an automatic
methodology based on the UNE 139803:2012 (WCAG 2.0) standard
, developed ad-hoc for the Web Accessibility Observatory. This methodology has into account 20 accessibility checks. Each check is composed by many checks (more than 100) that are automatically executed. In addition, it includes other automatic checks, using specialized rules, which are usually perform manually.
The OAW Tracker
allows the configurations of all the needed parameters to perform one observatory iteration
(list of web portals, web pages per portal, methodology, frequency, etc) and also allows to perform and to review all the execution process
. Furthermore, it allows the generation of the conclusions reports and the needed results,
to obtain the accessibility overall view in one sector and also to obtain the detailed reports for each web portal containing all the existing problems.
In addition, the OAW Tracker is used by the
online diagnosis service available in the Accessibility Community
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 analyse two times in a year more than 700 web portals, 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. This tool has been initially developed by INTECO (National Communications Technology Institute). When this institute was converted to
INCIBE
(Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute) all the source code and materials were transferred to the Ministry of Finance and Public Function which has been using and evolving the project, and now, has released the product and has offered it to all the possible stakeholders.
