1. Executive Summary

This report describes the conformance of the TerraScan TaxSifter Web site family with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0. The review process is described in Section 5 below and is based on the W3C's Conformance Evaluation method as described in Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility.

Based on this evaluation, the TerraScan TaxSifter Web site family meets WCAG 1.0, Conformance Level Double A. Detailed review results are available in Section 6 below. Resources for follow-up study are listed in Section 7 below. Feedback on this evaluation is welcome.

2. Background about Evaluation

Conformance evaluation of Web accessibility requires a combination of semi-automated evaluation tools and manual evaluation by an experienced reviewer. The evaluation results in this report are based on evaluation conducted on the following date(s): 4/24/2006. The Web site may have changed since that time. Additional information on the evaluation process is available in Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility.

3. Web Site Reviewed

  • TaxSifter
    • Providing County Assessor and Treasurer property information to the public.
  • http://[SITE].taxsifter.com/taxsifter
  • All URL’s were included in the manual and automatic review processes. Below are screenshots of the site as it existed during the evaluation procedures.

 

  • The review was conducted during the month of April, 2006.
  • US-English is the language used on the web site.

4. Reviewer

5. Review Process

6. Results and Recommended Actions

  • This web site appears to meet WCAG 1.0 Level Double A conformance standards for web site accessibility. The site design is intuitive and allows for fast searching for both sighted and visually impaired users. Color selection will not pose a problem for color impaired users. The site employs no audio or video features at this time.    
  • All future versions of the web site will need to be evaluated against then current Accessibility standards using current manual and automatic tools to ensure optimum compatibility.

7. References