For the 7th year in a row, the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has entrusted Greytower and siteSifter with the automated part of this year’s SOCITM Better Connected audit (BC10).
During this project — designed to assist local government in making good content accessible to all — a total of 433 sites were to be automatically tested against a SOCITM–specific baseline, and the results collated to form the basis for manual review.
Greytower’s siteSifter testing tool went through approximately two hundred pages from each site — 86,600 pages in all — in a little less than thirty six hours, and delivered over sixteen megabytes worth of custom reports.
We here at Greytower would like to thank the RNIB for their continued trust in us, and wish them a successful continuation of the project!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal are © 2002–2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
For more information, please contact: Tina Holmboe CTO, Greytower Technologies info@greytower.net
Every day another 100 people will start to lose their sight. There are around two million people in the UK with sight problems. RNIB is the leading charity working in the UK offering practical support, advice and information for anyone with sight difficulties. If you, or someone you know, has a sight problem, RNIB can help. Call the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or visit www.rnib.org.uk.
For more information, please contact: Marco Ranon RNIB Access Consultancy Services webaccess@rnib.org.uk
SOCITM, funded in 1986 as the professional association for ICT managers working in and for the public sector, is today a membership organisation running professional and commercial activities. With around 1700 members, including 98% of all UK local authorities, it plays a leading role in ICT–facilitated local government transformation in the UK.
This weeks release of siteSifter focus on WCAG 2.0 improvements; specifically to the various patterns used to detect common problems with such things as link texts and alt attributes.
There are also further work on new baselines, as well as a beta version of the new One–Time Token download system. More on that will follow next week.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
We’re always willing, and eager, to keep up with the times. That’s why we’re branching out into various social media; with the added incentive that it’ll make news and other information from us, to you, arrive faster, and to where you are right now.
You can find us on Facebook; on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
Welcome to even more new ways of keeping up with us!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal are © 2002–2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
For more information, please contact: Tina Holmboe CTO, Greytower Technologies info@greytower.net
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
For the 4th year running, Greytower Technologies has had the honour of assisting the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) with the automated assessment part of the annual SOCITM Better Connected project — 467 UK local authority websites were tested by our siteSifter accessibility testing tool.
Producing comprehensive reports on a form easily utilized for the manual part of the assessment, siteSifter again show its strengths as a supplement to expert testing.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Due to the discovery of a bug in the way generic Excel reports were generated we just released a maintenance version of siteSifter — 2.10p16.
Under all circumstances the generic Excel, CSV and XML report generators should include ALL issues discovered. The generic HTML, PDF, ODF and Word generators will behave as you configure them to in the user interface.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
We are both happy and proud to announce that for the 8th year running, the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has entrusted Greytower and siteSifter with the automated part of this year’s SOCITM Better Connected audit (BC11).
During the project — designed to assist local government in making good content accessible to all — a total of 433 sites are to be automatically tested against a SOCITM–specific baseline, and the results collated to form the basis for manual review.
Greytower’s siteSifter testing tool will process two hundred pages from each site — 86,600 pages in all, and deliver custom reports to the RNIB.
We here at Greytower would like to thank the RNIB for their continued trust in us, and wish them a successful continuation of the project!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal are © 2002–2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
For more information, please contact: Tina Holmboe CTO, Greytower Technologies info@greytower.net
Every day another 100 people will start to lose their sight. There are around two million people in the UK with sight problems. RNIB is the leading charity working in the UK offering practical support, advice and information for anyone with sight difficulties. If you, or someone you know, has a sight problem, RNIB can help. Call the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or visit www.rnib.org.uk.
For more information, please contact: Marco Ranon RNIB Access Consultancy Services webaccess@rnib.org.uk
SOCITM, funded in 1986 as the professional association for ICT managers working in and for the public sector, is today a membership organisation running professional and commercial activities. With around 1700 members, including 98% of all UK local authorities, it plays a leading role in ICT–facilitated local government transformation in the UK.
Welcome to the first Release Wednesday!
The main feature for this release of siteSifter is the File Archive and ERM Screenshot handling. Documentation for both functions will arrive shortly.
In addition there are several bugfixes, and some UI changes for improved accessibility — and efficiency. You might notice that, when in expert mode, the project details page is easier to access, and that previously well–buried functions are quicker to navigate.
Please note that these functions are brand new, and while thoroughly tested there are still the possibility of errors.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
We here at Greytower hope you all had a great New Year, and that 2011 is proving equally good!
Our first release of the year, 2.10 p14, is primarily a maintenance version, correcting such things as copyright date on the webpages of siteSifter Journal, as well as a few minor presentation bugs.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Our new article “92 Accessibility Audits” was released today. This article details the work that Greytower Technologies did alongside other consultants for the Swedish National Audit office in determining the accessibility and usability of Swedish Goverment Websites.
The article outlines the background, the process, and the results and is aimed at a technical audience. It was posted to the WAI Interest Group mailing list on the 4‸th of July 2003.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Staff does not rest on our laurels; by no means. We are busy working on new and improved features. Today, however, we do some maintenance.
Release 2.9p45 of siteSifter focus mainly on improvements to the project editor, including new and more accessibly ways of notifying the user of input field validation errors, and on improvements to the overall accessibility of the interface.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The Greytower Corporate website has been stable, with the same design, for several years. It has also had a persistent bug in the way news–stories are handled.
With fresh technology now in place — such as dynamic web font support in several browsers — and a new publishing manager, we’ve decided to redo both structure and design.
The site will meet both WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 to level ‘AAA’ . Do enjoy!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
We are happy to announce the 21st update of siteSifter journal version 2.10. Once again we have plenty of news.
This release focus on user interface improvements, as well as bugfixes. It is not likely that you will spot many changes, but they are there.
Secondly, there are improvements to baselines and reports:
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The 2.10p4 release of siteSifter contains a number of improvements and requested features, in addition to some bugfixes, and refinements of checkpoint parsers.
Firstly, the algorithm used by some baselines to determine whether or not a sequence of headers were, indeed, hierarchical had a tendency to provide false positives. This has been fixed.
Another bug prevented the correct navigation within the Extended Report Module in some, rare, circumstances. Again fixed.
Secondly, the user preference editor has been updated. It is now possible to, on a user–by–user basis, select which date/time format siteSifter should use in the web interface. We’ve included a number of options, and can add more if desired. This should help with usability and accessibility alike. A more specific DATE element would be more helpful, naturally, but until and unless HTML is updated with that we hope this’ll be a good compromise.
Thirdly, we’ve added a Resource Archive, to which files — currently screenshots and CSV files — can be uploaded. These files can later be used in various forms. At the moment the only such use implemented is the ability to specify a list of URIs to mirror and test.
By using this method you can more tightly control which URIs are sifted.
Please note that this feature is brand new, and the likelihood of some bugs creeping in is reasonably high. The ability to use uploaded images in Extended Reports will arrive shortly, as will the chance to upload URI lists in Excel form.
Documentation on new features, as well as some other changes, will also be published as soon as possible; we’ll make a separate announcement to that effect.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s release again focus on maintenance. A majority of the changes are bugfixes, although there are some updates to a number of the bespoke baselines.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
siteSifter 2.10p39 is primarily a maintenance release, correcting a number of minor — and one major — bug. We have also corrected some spelling errors, and made the Help Centre links more accessible.
The new version is immediately available to all our clients.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
2009 looks to be an interesting year indeed for Greytower and siteSifter. We plan on introducing a number of new features, and continue improving those which already exist. The first step in this process is the release of 2.9p32; a maintenance release focusing on speed and stability. It also pave the way for new and exciting features to arrive during March 2009.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
I have had the great honour of being invited to the XHTML 2 WG as an expert in accessibility. It sounds so straight–forward, but I shall readily admit that I am somewhat apprehensive — the relationship between XHTML and myself has, at best, been tentative.
As it is likely that HTML 5 and I shall not even progress beyond first date, I have accepted the invitation. Perhaps I can make a difference. After all, it would be impossible to think otherwise, or there wouldn’t be much point to anything.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Version 2.10 of siteSifter is a major upgrade to Greytower’s quality and accessibility testing tool. The release primarily focus on the introduction of the Extended Report Module ( ERM ) , improved tool accessibility and design, and performance upgrades.
An Extended Report is a collection of tests, both automated from siteSifter’s own objective baselines, and manual results from human reviewers. The ERM give users the ability to created extended reports, save them for future work, share them between team members, maintain and adjust a work–flow, and generate reports in a number of formats such as HTML or MS Word.
This new module bridges the gap between automated testing and manual review, making it possible for users to do both in one tool.
Work has also been done on accessibility of the application itself. A new structure, more suitable to keyboard navigation, and a new layout with emphasis on clarity and contrast, make us confident that this version fulfil both WCAG 2.0 to ‘AAA’ and real–world user requirements.
Performance has been improved, with some tests showing a 75% increase in speed; others pick up more detail than ever before.
siteSifter 2.10 is the fastest, most flexible and precise website quality and accessibility testing tool so far produced by Greytower.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Once again it is Release Wednesday, and this week we are focusing on bugfixes and UI improvements. Further details will be forthcoming, of course, as will comprehensive documentation.
In short, however, we have added further user preferences, allowing you to turn on and off various parts of the interface as you need them or not. There are also several fixes to the UX, for example in the way menu items are rendered for the various user levels.
All in all we think you should find SSX “cleaned up” quite a bit.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The 2.10 (b13) release of siteSifter is put into production earlier than planned, due in part to certain recently discovered bugs — including a problem with generating reports if the monthly quota is exceeded.
This has been fixed, as has a problem with character sets in the Analytics 15 checkpoint.
In addition a number of Extended Report features has been added; this will be documented in the appropriate section of the user manual as soon as possible.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
After over a year with the experimental website based around our server–side stylesheet switcher, it was decided to end the experiment and return to a system based on static documents.
Re–development was begun in December of 2003, and was aimed at producing a faster and even more accessible website. We believe that this goal has been reached, and offer you a site even easier to navigate, with information that can be accessed by anyone, from any browser.
At the same time, our move to establish our position as one of Europe’s leading accessibility experts continue — as part of that effort we have now made www.greytower.co.uk and www.greytower.se active.
Enjoy!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Release 2.9p44 of siteSifter focus mainly on bugfixes. We have corrected a number of purely visual problems, and in the process improved error handling.
In addition the readability algorithms, used for WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 14.1 and WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria 3.1.5, has been completely rewritten. This ensures better precision, while remaining in sync with the results that were reported in the past.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower’s new website — version 4.0 — was launched today with little publicity. Completely redesigned and reimplemented for a more coherent visual appearance and better accessibility, it should now serve our clients more efficiently.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
In our constant effort to improve on siteSifter we have, on the 5<sup>th</sup> of March 2009, released siteSifter 2.9p34. Primarily a maintenance release it not only fixes a few bugs, but improves stability and introduce a brand new graphical interface.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The most important part of the 2.10p31 release is the inclusion of a brand new mobile interface — specifically tailored for the Nokia N900, Apple iPhone 4, and Sony–Ericsson Xperia Arc smartphones.
An iPad–specific web application will follow. In addition we’ve plugged a memory leak and removed some rendering inconsistencies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s release — 2.10 (p12) — focus on changes to the Extended Report Module. We’ve made several improvements, mainly in the user interface and navigation; all to speed up and make working with ERs easier, and more effective.
We’ve also made a few bugfixes, as well as some changes to, for example, sort algorithms. You might notice that the list of baselines in the ER is now sorted alphabetically.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
With the knowledge that the OTRS ticket handling system employed by Greytower is not the world’s most accessible web application, we’ve added a further function to the siteSifter Help Centre.
While the actual handling of tickets are still done by way of OTRS, siteSifter’s web interface now contain a static, exported list of bugs, feature requests, and change suggestions.
In this way we hope that tickets can be handled in an accessible way until we have our own system in place.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Support for the machine–testable checkpoints in the US Government standard known as “Section 508” has been added to siteSifter. This is part of our ongoing work to support as many standards and regulations as possible. We aim to, in the future, add support for even more tests and recommendations.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
As you know we released siteSifter 2.10p21 on Wednesday the 23rd. Sadly we almost immediately found a bug sneaking in, and so on Thursday the 24th there was yet another release, this time to cover the rather serious problem which otherwise would have prevented you from choosing a baseline in the project editor.
This is now fixed. You may notice a few user interface changes; these will be thoroughly documented in the release notes for 2.10p23, due on the 2nd of March.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
A third (P3) revision of siteSifter 2.10 has been released to our clients. The update is site–wide, and immediate.
This release focus mainly on improving metrics, including more information about the number of issues detected, and where they are found. There are also improvements to the readability and printability of reports.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This is a test of the commentary system used with the Greytower corporate website.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Formalised standards and guidelines are all well and good, but at times you want a simple, straight–forward, test of good practises when authoring for the web.
This is what our Analytics baseline is for, and while it has always been useful, we’ve spent time making it even more so. As part of this work we’ve talked to developers and designers, and nailed down a number of new checkpoints to include.
With a full eighteen different tests, we are confident that you’ll find something useful. Due to the nature of the Analytics baseline we are also interested in your views on Best Practise, and what we can do to support it.
We would also like to mention that as of last week it is possible to follow us on Twitter as @GreytowerTech — welcome!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s see mainly bugfixes, most of them related to the user interface. Some, specifically for the Analytics baseline, improve efficiency and reduce testing time.
Two new features, both related to reports, are in place. The HTML report type has been changed, making it more structured and easier to read and understand — or so we hope. It would be of great help to us if you could test, and report back. If the response is positive, we’ll also redo the Word–, OpenOffice and PDF report types.
The second change is the introduction of “archive” HTML– and Excel reports. This means siteSifter will create one report per checkpoint/test and store them in a ZIP archive which you can then download as usual, instead of one large report for all checkpoints.
“Archive” reports are aimed at those situations where you have a large amount of results, and wish to import them into for example MS Excel — which has a maximum line count of 65,000.
From the project details page, select “Advanced”, then “Report Options”. You can now create a new report based on old test data. If you do so using the HTML– or Excel report types, check the “Create one report per checkpoint … ” box to enable the “archive” feature.
If the feedback on this technique is positive, we will extend it to cover the CSV and XML types as well.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
After more than six months of preparations, Greytower Technologies (UK) Ltd. has been given the go–ahead by Companies House, and is now working in the field of web accessibility in England.
From this day onward, this English sister–company of Greytower Technologies will trade exclusively in the United Kingdom, whilst maintaining close ties with its Swedish counterpart.
Greytower Sweden wishes our younger sibling in the United Kingdom the very best of luck in this new market!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
As you are aware we found ourself with a memory leak just before Easter; a leak which impacted large–scale sift jobs. This is now solved, by way of additional hardware and some software updates. Should you experience any further problems, please let us know.
In addition to these changes, version 2.10p28 focus on the introduction of a new navigation mechanism — what we call a ‘Workflow Wizard’ . You can try it out through the ‘wand’ icon in the main menu, alternatively by the “Workflow Wizard” link. Currently there are two workflows implemented; but we hope that you will let us know which other procedures you’d like to see simplified in this manner.
A number of other minor bugfixes are also included.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Since the start in 2002, Greytower Technologies have worked steadily in a number of areas — most important of which is our engagement in the field of accessibility.
Today, coming up on Christmas 2004, we celebrate the processing of our one thousandth accessibility audit. During the two years we have been in operation, more than 1,000 websites have been tested by our competent staff using both automated and manual methods.
Working in both the United Kingdom and in Sweden, we plan to be around for a long time to come — and to provide high quality services to clients of all types and sizes.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Due to being notified of several priority 5 (blocking) bugs in the new Non–project UI (NPUI), we have released a revision of siteSifter ahead of schedule.
This version fixes eight (8) interface bugs in the NPUI, and should impact no other section of the system.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Many–a time we’ve liked nothing more than to use siteSifter from a mobile device — and now, as of 2.10p35, we can!
A new interface has been added to siteSifter, one you can access from the defacto standard URI m.greytower.net — a subscription to our service is still required.
This UX has been tailor made to fit smaller mobile screens, and designed to simulate an iPhone application — even so it works equally well on Maemo and Android.
From the user preferences within siteSifter you can control whether or not to use the mobile interface.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s release focus mainly on the development of a new baseline. At the same time we are taking the opportunity to deal with a few bugs.
One of the most important of these showed up in the WCAG 2.0 baseline, specifically in the 3.1.1 success criteria: when a document used the XHTML doctype, but the text/html content–type, and only specified language by way of the xml:lang attribute, screen readers had no hook from which to pick up the information.
xml:lang only is permissible under the XHTML specification, but not when using XHTML per AppendiC “HTML Compatibility Guidelines”.
This, and other minor bugs, have been fixed in p15.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Just a little over a month after the latest draft release of the WCAG 2.0 recommendations from the W3C, siteSifter is updated to support the new standard. Even though the final version of WCAG 2 won’t be with us for another four or five months, SSX offer support — and continous updates to that support — for the baseline as of August 2008.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week we’re adding estimated–time–to–completion to the the mobile interface, something which was previously only available in the desktop version.
A few bugs have also been fixed.
Finally, we’ve rewritten part of the LinkRot baseline so to improve execution speed with nearly ten per cent.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2009 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s release of siteSifter is a minor maintenance version. It contains only small changes from a user perspective. These release notes cover both version 2.10p22 and 2.10p23, however.
Among the changes are:
A number of UX improvements have been made:
Our work has, for various reasons, become delayed. We will be back with more functionality–improvements on the 9th of March.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies are always striving to ensure that our own web presence is as accessible as possible to all users. In keeping with this ideal, we have redesigned and restructured our corporate website.
With the introduction of revision 6, we are of the opinion that our website has become better, faster, and more accessible than ever before.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
One of the features in siteSifter which we are the most proud of is the ability to present reports in a multitude of formats. We aim to have a number of generic, and specialized, formats available.
Release 2.9p46 of siteSifter is part of this work, and add generic reports in the ODF (Open Document Format), PDF (Portable Document Format) and ODC (Microsoft Word™) formats.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The LinkRot baseline, used to test whether or not links point to the correct place, has been rewritten from scratch, and now offers even more functionality. From a humble beginning with testing only regular links, it now checks any URI found in HTML, XHTML and CSS — including @import–ed CSS — as well as in DOCTYPEs.
A new report format has been created, so that users can have the test results in neat CSV columns for import into spreadsheets. The HTML–based report has also been revamped to include explanations, line numbers, and a new layout.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
As you may be aware, we normally release patches to siteSifter Journal every Thursday evening. This is done so that any problems with the new version can be dealt with prior to the weekend.
We are now at a stage in development when feature releases will not be as common as bug–fixes. Therefore we’ve decided to change the day, and release new version on Wednesday evenings Central European Time. Not every week will see releases, of course.
The next release will subsequently be 2.10 (p8) on Wednesday the 10th of November 2010, including, among other things, the new screen–shot handling functions of the Extended Report Module.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies and Riksrevisionsverket (The Swedish National Audit Office) today signed an agreement that sees Greytower evaluating a total of ninety–two Swedish goverment websites against the accessibility guidelines created by the World Wide Web Consortium and their Web Accessibility Initiative.
The project will be active through January and most of February 2003, and will result in a comprehensive overview of the state of Swedish goverment information resources on the World Wide Web.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The 2.9p42 release of siteSifter focus mainly on improvements to the back–end systems in order to increase application speed and improve internal error reporting. This’ll make it easier for us to provide our clients with quick, and precise assistance.
In addition we have made several improvements to the user interface, both to make it more efficient and more consistent. It is our opinion that we’ve succeeded in both of those goals.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The 8th release of siteSifter 2.10 focuses mainly on new features such as per–report and extended report default text configuration. There’s also a new file manager, supporting ERM screenshot handling and CSV file upload of URIs to test.
There are also new bugfixes, some improvements to the HTML report format, and a number of minor UI changes.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
With the new release of the WCAG 2.0 specification as a Proposed Recommendation, we here at Greytower has updated our support for these guidelines. As of version 2.9p29 of siteSifter, the WCAG 2 checkpoints has been revised and refined. Go on, try it out at siteSifter Lite and tell us what you think — info@greytower.net!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
As you are aware we have made several changes to SSX functionality over the last couple of months. Now the user manual is following suit, with release of version 1.2.
This release covers all details of siteSifter, including the new file archive, the extended report module, and the screenshot handling.
Should you wish a paper copy of the manual, please contact us and we’ll have one shipped to you free of cost. The online manual is available from the SSX Help Centre (Help–link in the main menu; graphical appearance of a stylized question–mark)
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Version 2.10 (p36) of siteSifter Journal was released today. This revision add several new features, such as the ability to specify exclude patterns when testing, a single–site test interface, and a single–project interface.
The latter two features have limited applicability, and so are not normally sold as part of siteSifter subscriptions. Contact us to learn more.
There are also some bugfixes in this release.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Today’s release of siteSifter 2.10 (p38) marks the last feature–release in the 2.10 series. What this means is that we will bugfix 2.10 until we are ready with a 2.11 (a0) release — likely August.
This week we have added a specialized PDF testing mode, designed to apply checks against PDF files, as opposed to the normal HTML/XHTML documents. The mode can be enabled — please contact us if you wish to test it out.
Several more tests and further enhancements will be added to this mode over the next few weeks. We’ll be happy to accept suggestions as to what should be tested; to start with we’ll base the work on the WCAG PDF guidelines.
There are also several bugfixes in this release.
For the summer we’ll turn our attention to documentation issues, including releases of EPUB (Sony, iPad, iPhone etc), MOBI (Kindle) and PDF versions of our user manual.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
The summer has been a busy one for Greytower — we’ve rebuilt our internal test systems, and wandered the Web searching for real–life cases of the type which our various baselines look for.
This, combined with minor, but significant, changes to the graphical user interface of the reports makes this version of siteSifter the most precise and usable ever. Have a look at our siteSifter Lite at http://www.sitesifter.co.uk/lite/ and then come talk to us about a subscription!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
With the Candidate Recommendation release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) revision 2.0 by the W3C, Greytower has begun work on a WCAG 2 baseline which, when completed, will give all users of siteSifter Journal the ability to automatically assess those parts of WCAG 2.0 which are programmatically testable. We will keep you informed on our progress, and plan to give access to the baseline soon.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week we are continuing with our regularly scheduled Release Wednesday. SSX is now at version 2.10 (p35), and the revision focus mainly on bugfixes.
Some features are included — estimating sift time has been added to the status page, the linkrot baseline has seen a speed increase, and – finally — the prevalent session bug squashed once and for all.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower has launched a new information site – http://www.sitesifter.co.uk — which has as its primary focus providing potential clients, journalists, and the simply curious data regarding the siteSifter quality assessment system. Here you’ll find price information, details of features, and background information.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
As demands are increased for government and organizations to broaden their presence on the Internet without necessarily cut back on traditional channels, questions regarding standards, open systems, and accessiblity are raised.
With this in mind, Greytower Technologies have joined with M Orski Konsult to offer a seminar on technology and accessibility.
You can find more information on http://www.greytower.net/sv/seminarium/. Please note that this seminar is held in Stockholm and in Swedish.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
While 2009 draws to a close, Greytower is still hard at work with bugfixes and features for siteSifter.
Today we announce release 2.9p43, or, in other words, the 43rd patch of version 2.9. Among the notable changes and improvements are enhanced support for JavaScript and user interface polishing.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week we have done quite some work on the Extended Report module. Several improvements are in place, mainly in the user interface and navigation. Working with ERs have never been easier.
There are also bugfixes included in this release.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
It’s been a week since we released version 7 of our corporate website, and in that time we’ve had a number of interesting bits of feedback.
The main bulk of comments has been on the accessibility, and so we’ve spent time changing things to improve. For example, the ‘display’ property is no longer used to hide content, as the technique wrecked the experience for screen–reader users.
We’ve also made changes to various alt–texts, added or changed summaries and captions, and in general polished up the site.
Hopefully we’ve done well!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This week’s release of siteSifter, 2.10 (p42) focus mainly on correcting minor flaws in the user interface, such as for example a large gap between the header and content in Firefox 5.
There is also a number of improvements to WCAG 2 analysis modules and bespoke components.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
With the release of the most stable and functional version of siteSifter ever, Greytower has also created a free, one–shot, one–page testing service for the WCAG 1.0 AAA baseline — siteSifter Lite. With this you can try before buying, and test pages through an easy to use minimalistic interface. Go on — you know you want to!
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
This weeks release of siteSifter introduce a set of new features:
There are also a number of bugfixes, most of them “under the hood”. Two stand out, however:
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Revision 2.9p48 of siteSifter is primarily a maintenance release, aimed at correcting a number of minor bugs. Some changes have been made to the syntax highlight mechanism in the reports so as to make identifying problematic code easier.
Two new features was added — direct links to mirrors, datasets and reports from the status page, and a brief quota display in the upper menubar (expert mode only) for a quick overview of how many projects/pages can still be created/processed.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.
Under some rare circumstances the markup validation parser for WCAG 2.0 used the incorrect character set, and thereby produced false positives. Release 2.9p41 fixes this bug, and adds a number of improvements to both WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 parsers, including a beta version of a more advanced contrast ratio analysis algorithm.
Greytower Technologies is a Swedish–based company with a UK presence, specialising in system development and automated quality auditing on and for the World Wide Web. We perform single and multiple site audits using a number of different tests suites, including accessibility guidelines.
Greytower has been registered with the Swedish Tax Office since 2002.
siteSifter and siteSifter Journal © 2002 — 2011 Greytower Technologies; all rights reserved.
siteSifter is a web–based quality and accessibility testing system, complete with project management and workflow features. Monthly subscriptions are offered by Greytower Technologies.