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<H1>Bobby Approved Accessible<BR>Web Sites Made Easy To Design</H1><!-- Begin ad code. -->
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<P>Bobby approved designs power a practical, pragmatic approach to web
accessibility. And accessible web site design enhances Internet business website
performance.</P>
<P>Being "Bobby Approved" supports the mission of Accessible.Org, which is to
make <A title="Click here for our portfolio of accessible web designs." href="http://www.accessible.org/accessible-web-designs.html"><FONT color=#003399>accessible web designs</FONT></A> for nonprofits, small businesses
and government departments in the most <B>practical and pragmatic</B> ways
possible, such that they are able to display a Bobby approval symbol.</P>
<P>This implies a harmonious blending of the objectives of the site owner with
the recommendations of the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ew3%2Eorg%2FTR%2F1999%2FWAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/"><FONT color=#003399>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</FONT></A> of the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ew3%2Eorg%2FWAI%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/"><FONT color=#003399>Web Accessibility
Initiative</FONT></A> and of the <A href="http://www.accessible.org/section-508-compliance.html"><FONT color=#003399>U.S. Section 508 Standards</FONT></A> for accessibility adopted by
the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccess-board%2Egov%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.access-board.gov/"><FONT color=#003399>Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board</FONT></A> (Access Board) of the U.S.
Federal government.</P>
<P>For conceptual purposes, we've split website accessibility issues into two
main streams:</P>
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<P><A title="Click here for disability-related issues." href="http://www.accessible.org/people-with-disabilities.html"><FONT color=#003399>disability-related</FONT></A> - making web sites or anything
having to do with the Internet as accessible as possible for <A title="Click here for the people with disabilities page." href="http://www.accessible.org/people-with-disabilities.html"><FONT color=#003399>people with disabilities</FONT></A></P>
<LI>
<P><A title="Click here for non-disability-related issues." href="http://www.accessible.org/browser-compatibility.html"><FONT color=#003399>non-disability-related</FONT></A> - making web sites viewable by
as many browsers (and browser settings) as possible, in other words assuring
<A title="Click here for the browser compatibility page." href="http://www.accessible.org/browser-compatibility.html"><FONT color=#003399>browser compatibility</FONT></A></P></LI></OL>
<H2>A Short Bobby History</H2>
<P><IMG style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px" border=0 hspace=0 alt="Being Bobby Approved plays on the image of the gently authoritative and iconic British Bobby." align=right src="http://www.accessible.org/image-files/bobby-approved.gif" width=180 height=180>Bobby is the name CAST gave to the free public service it
launched in 1996 to automatically analyze accessibility features of web sites.
It cleverly capitalized on the iconic British Bobby policeman and became an
instant hit.</P>
<P>In addition to the automated analysis, it also offered easy-to-follow
suggestions for the manual interpretaton of the extensive WAI guidelines, for
which an automated check is not so practical.</P>
<P>For nearly 10 years, Bobby helped make the World Wide Web more accessible to
individuals with disabilities. Novice and professional web designers alike
analyzed and made improvements to millions of Web pages.</P>
<P>This work won CAST numerous awards and international recognition. CAST no
longer supports the Bobby accessiblity testing software, and in fact, sold the
application to Watchfire in 2004.</P>
<P>Watchfire further developed Bobby and included it as the Accessibility Module
of its Watchfire® WebXM™ application. WebXM™ was designed to help the online
business better manage its brand by complying with accessibility guidelines and
best practices.</P>
<P>With Watchfire's acquisition of Bobby in 2004 and then the later acquisition
of Watchfire by IBM in 2007, Bobby ceased to be available as a free service or
standalone product.</P>
<P>However, as a testimony to the true value of Bobby, it's now one of the tests
included in IBM's Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition software, the
enterprise application for testing websites.</P>
<H2>This Site Is Bobby Approved</H2>
<P><IMG style="MARGIN-LEFT: 5px" border=0 hspace=0 alt="This site is Bobby Approved in a pragmatic implementation of practical accessibility." align=right src="http://www.accessible.org/image-files/bobby-approved.jpg" width=180 height=270>Priority 1, 2 and 3 issues do not apply to pages on this
site, thus qualifying it to be AAA Bobby Approved and entitled to use the AAA
Bobby Approval icon. Bobby's accessibility analysis is an implementation of the
May 5, 1999 version of the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ew3%2Eorg%2FTR%2F1999%2FWAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/"><FONT color=#003399>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines</FONT></A> of the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ew3%2Eorg%2FWAI%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/"><FONT color=#003399>Web Accessibility
Initiative</FONT></A>.</P>
<P>Bobby analyzes Web pages in accordance with these guidelines and, where
possible, automatically checks guidelines. There are a variety of important
accessibility guidelines that Bobby, like any other accessibility tool, cannot
check automatically.</P>
<P>For example, the requirement for text transcriptions for audio files to help
people who are deaf requires you to manually look at the Web pages to confirm
that the transcripts exist.</P>
<P>Section 508 issues do not apply to pages on this site, thus qualifying it to
be Section 508 Bobby Approved and entitled to use the Section 508 Bobby Approval
icon.</P>
<P>Bobby's Section 508 accessibility analysis is an implementation of the <A href="http://www.accessible.org/section-508-compliance.html"><FONT color=#003399>U.S. Section 508 Standards</FONT></A> for accessibility adopted by
the <A onclick="window.location.href='http://www.accessible.org/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccess-board%2Egov%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaccessible%2Eorg%2Fbobby-approved%2Ehtml'; return false;" href="http://www.access-board.gov/"><FONT color=#003399>Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board</FONT></A> (Access Board) of the U.S.
Federal government.</P>
<H2>Accessible Website Design Services</H2>
<P>We offer <B>practical and pragmatic</B> accessibility-related resources for
nonprofit and small business website designs in the form of advice, products and
services from our own experience, as well as a variety of other sources. Our
services generally consist of:</P>
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<LI>site tune-up for accessibility
<LI>accessible website designs and development
<LI>site promotion geared to small business accessibility </LI></UL>
<P align=center><A title="Click here to contact us about a Bobby Approved accessible design for your web site." href="http://www.accessible.org/contact-us.html"><IMG border=0 hspace=0 alt="Click here to contact us about a Bobby Approved accessible design for your web site." vspace=2 src="http://www.accessible.org/image-files/bobby-approved-design.jpg" width=518 height=270></A><BR><B><A style="COLOR: #000033; TEXT-DECORATION: none" title="Click here to contact us about a Bobby Approved accessible design for your web site." href="http://www.accessible.org/contact-us.html">Let us make your web site
affordably accessible with our<BR>practical and pragmatic approach to
accessibility.</A></B></P>
<P>We also provide resources for small businesses and nonprofits seeking
government aid in the form of <A title="Click here for government grants and loans." href="http://www.accessible.org/disability-grants.html"><FONT color=#003399>government grants and loans</FONT></A> to help finance accessible
website designs. Appearance of a resource on this site does not imply
endorsement by Accessible.Org.</P>
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