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The Simultaneous Release Requirements have an [http://www.eclipse.org/helios/planning/EclipseSimultaneousRelease.php Accessibility Requirement] to report Accessibility Compliance by using "... a publically available checklist ...". While for the overall Helios Release documentation, we will provide one, "rolled up" checklist for all of
WTP, the PMC would like to ask each sub-project to do their own evaluations and tests and provide their own checklist report, specific to their sub-project. For consistency, we recommend the sub-projects
use these publically available lists (they were chosen because they have a good 
orientation to "developers" with useful reference links to examples, etc.):

* [http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/software/accesssoftware.html Software]
* [http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/documentation/accessdoc.html Documentation]
* [http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/accessweb.html Web]

Additionally, where tools are used to test compliance, we recommend JAWS be used. (This is not free, open source software, so we can not require it, but we know a number of committers do in fact have versions or licenses to use it, so, when possible, for consistency, would be good to use it.) There are other tools available, as mentioned
in [http://www.eclipse.org/helios/planning/EclipseSimultaneousRelease.php The Simultaneous Release Requirements]. Also, be sure to read the updated Eclipse Corner Article, [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Accessibility351/index.html Designing Accessible Plug-ins in Eclipse] for how to program in Eclipse for accessibility.

Note: This Simultaneous Release Requirement is to ''document'' our accessibility compliance, or lack of it. 
The requirement is not that there be no accessibility bugs. Those should be open, when found, but then 
prioritized along with all other bugs as to severity, importance, etc. 



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