Report

Ocawa reports are of unprecedented detail and accuracy, indicating precisely all inaccessible aspects of a page via highlighting of the page source. They are based on the audit results stored in xml and are thus, effectively format-free; there is a lot of scope for customising the look-and-feel of the reports. Currently, results are presented clearly in funtion of the priority levels called into question, in fully linked HTML pages: the user navigates the pages of the report as he or she would a web-site. In addition to the availability of a compressed version of the entire report, each page is ready to be packaged and sent individually without any loss of presentation (styles and javascript are kept in the html file).

Opening with a complete statistical overview of the audit, the general results are immediately apparent. The richness of the report is most clearly seen, however, in the cross referencing of specific remarks about the accessibility of the page with the actual html source, as received by a browser. This cross referencing is precise, to the line and tag, and features a higlighting mechanism that shows developers exactly where their attention is needed to assure accessiblity. This is a tremendous value-add in terms of developer time and thus overall production/maintenance costs.

The XML encoding of audit results means that integration of Ocawa into other software is made very easy. It is also possible to get reports in RDF . Ocawa's Firefox extension uses this type of service.