Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition

Monitor more than 170 comprehensive accessibility checks to support compliance

IBM® Rational® Policy Tester Accessibility Edition helps ensure that websites are accessible to all users by monitoring more than 170 comprehensive accessibility checks. It helps determine the website’s level of compliance with government standards, and displays the results in user-friendly dashboards and reports. Now you can optimize your web pages for people with disabilities to promote compliance and win market share.

Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition delivers:

  • Support for compliance—with government standards and accessibility best practices. This software manages regulatory and internal compliance of the online channel.
  • Reports—that show the website’s level of compliance with a variety of international government standards and guidelines.
  • Productivity—to facilitate your ability to give equal access to everyone who wants to view your website.

Support for compliance

  • Determines the website's level of compliance with the United States government Section 508 standards.
  • Verifies the website's level of compliance with the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
  • Provides enhanced WCAG 2.0 compliance assessment capabilities including the Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Application (WAI-ARIA) specification.
  • Allows for the scanning of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for accessibility issues.
  • Supports France's AccessiWeb standard and other international standards.
  • Supports custom accessibility guidelines based on your organization's own internal policies.

Reports

  • Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition reports identify common problems on your website that can affect users with disabilities including difficulties with navigation, understanding non-text items, filling out forms, following links and accessing information presented in complex tables.
  • The W3C WCAG Issues Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when web pages are tested against the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 level A and AA. You can isolate and repair instances of a specific accessibility issue or group of accessibility issues relating to the 2.0 priority level.
  • The Section 508 Issues Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when web pages are tested against US Section 508 guidelines, so you can isolate and repair specific issues.
  • The AccessiWeb Report identifies accessibility issues encountered when web pages are tested against the French AccessiWeb standard. AccessiWeb criteria are divided into three categories of severity—bronze, silver and gold. You can review issues by criteria, page or check.
  • The Custom Accessibility Guidelines Report identifies the accessibility issues that apply to your organization’s specific accessibility policies.

Productivity

  • Presents reports in comprehensive dashboards that include metrics such as top accessibility issues, pages scanned over time and trending by issue severity.
  • Evaluates any dynamic application while providing issue visualization.
  • Offers wizards and scan configuration features that simplify use and make it easier to adopt the technology.
  • Automates manual tasks to reduce costs, minimize errors and enable faster remediation of issues.

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Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
  • Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (32/64bit )
  • Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 (32/64bit )Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • Windows 7 (32-bit) (client-side only)
  • Windows XP (32-bit) (client-side only)

Note:

1. For best results, install all critical Microsoft updates.
2. If the website being scanned uses technologies such as Flash, Windows Media, and additional character sets, these technologies must also be installed on the agent server machines.

Supported Integrations

  • WebSphere Portal V6.0.1.4, and higher

Database

  • SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2
  • SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition Service Pack 1 or SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1
  • SQL Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • SQL Server system requirements available from Microsoft.

Web Server

  • IIS6 (Windows 2003 Server) Note: IIS6 must be enabled on the Windows 2003 Server so that the Server installs properly
  • IIS7 (Windows 2008 Server) Note: IIS7 must be enabled on the Windows 2008 Server so that the Server installs properly

Other prerequisites

  • Before installing the Enterprise Server, you must have IIS installed Before installing the Enterprise Server, you must download and install the .NET Framework 4.0 from the Microsoft website.
  • Ensure that ASP.Net is installed and enabled in IIS.

Supported Browsers

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 6.x, 7.x

Processor

  • 3.0 GHz Pentium IV-compatible processor; faster processor or multiple processors recommended

Memory

  • 4 GB of RAM (minimum) or more recommended

Hard disk

  • Approximately 800 MB of available hard-disk space for the recommended installation
  • Approximately 10 GB of available hard-disk space for scan logs on the Policy Tester Scanner
  • Approximately 200 GB of available hard-disk space on the system hosting the database (equals approximately 400,000 pages)
  • Approximately 330 MB for the Web Services Explorer –(to test Web Services for compliance issues)

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