In early 2006, WebAIM began continued work on WAVE. This was a continuation of WAVE 3.0 work previously funded by Temple University and expanded the work funded by the National Center on Disability and Access to Education.
While this work continues, we have the following vision for WAVE development:
* Develop a full-featured, standalone WAVE toolbar extension for Firefox. This toolbar will provide all functionality of the web-based WAVE tool, but processing will be done locally on the client computer allowing WAVE analysis of intranet or password protected pages and offline evaluation.
* Reconfigure the web-based version of WAVE to allow continued development in an easier-to-develop framework.
* Re-evaluate WAVE evaluation rules to ensure that WAVE is providing the most thorough reporting available.
* Improve the WAVE reporting mechanism to allow better feedback and analysis.
* Expand WAVE to allow site-wide spidering and auditing capabilities - to be integrated with WebAIM's accessibility monitoring and reporting service.
