Evaluation Standards Overview - ACT & EARL

This page links to resources that support the development of web accessibility evaluation tools and methodologies. They are primarily for evaluation tool developers.

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT)

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) establishes and documents rules for testing the conformance of web content to accessibility standards.

ACT Rules Format info:

• ACT Overview
• Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format (Standard)

Test Rules use the ACT Rules Format:

• About ACT Rules
• All ACT Rules List

Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)

Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a machine-readable format for expressing test results.

EARL info:

• Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview includes links to EARL documents.