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Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer to aid manual inspection of accessibility related elements on web pages. Developed by the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium.
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Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer to aid manual inspection of accessibility related elements on web pages. Developed by the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium.
This is the P25 CAP 508 Accessibility Requirements Best Practices slide deck from the November 7, 2016 Webinar.
This guide provides information on when assistive technologies (AT) can and can’t be used and when human assistance may be needed in order to successfully perform tasks built into the online Trusted Tester training course. The target audience is persons with disabilities who use assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, speech input, or alternative input devices, and/or human assistance to understand where AT use is appropriate and when it may conflict with testing tasks.
The following information is provided to facilitate the approval of testing tools required by Trusted Tester within any IT environments. The Federal Accessibility Community of Practice Working Group constantly updates this information. You can find the latest web testing methodology in the Trusted Tester 5.1 GitHub repository, updated January 2024. All certified Trusted Testers must use this version, as it includes enhancements and updates to the testing process.
This guide provides guidance on how to install the required testing software that will be used by Trusted Testers following the Trusted Tester Test Process for Applications.
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology is committed to providing access to our webpages for individuals with disabilities, both members of the public and federal employees. To meet this commitment, we will comply with the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 508 requires that individuals with disabilities, who are members of the public seeking information or services from us, have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to that provided to the public who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on us.
The mission* of the Interagency Trusted Tester Program is to promote a unified, consistent, sharable, and repeatable test and evaluation approach for Section 508 standards conformance that federal agencies can implement throughout their information technology lifecycle to reduce redundant testing and improve cost savings. This effort supports an overall vision* of improving IT accessibility across government through unified requirements, reviews [test and evaluation], reporting, remediation, and reuse.
* Denotes proposed statements that will be finalized once ITTP Steering Committee is formalized.
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Accessible Systems & Technology (OAST) is committed to the development of the common testing approach for accessibility compliance and conformity, named Trusted Tester (TT). TT provides a code-inspection based test approach for determining software and web site conformance to the Section 508 standards.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Customer Experience Directorate (CXD), formerly known as the Office of Accessible Systems & Technology (OAST), is committed to the development of Trusted Tester, a common testing approach for accessibility compliance and conformity. Trusted Tester provides a code-inspection based test approach for determining web content conformance to the Section 508 standards.
Download the DHS IT Policy Archive file: ZIP | Individual Files