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I find WAVE useful to quickly identify areas where there are accessibility issues. The report does not provide you with the solution for each accessibility issue as it assumes that the user is familiar with the accessibility requirements and hence should able to fix the issues identified.  

My personal experience is that it is best to first identify the accessibility requirements to be fulfilled and how these can be done before the online course is built.  Not only must the ICT person be familiar with the accessibility requirements, the learning designer plays an important role in providing meaningful captions, alternate texts and FLASH exercises in alternative format which is accessible by in our case, the visually impaired students.

Read about the latest on WAVE in http://webaim.org/blog/update-on-wave/. You can learn more about how to use WAVE in WebAIM’s WAVE article.