Tag: Text Equivalants

100 Point Checlist to Web Accessibility

Posted by admin – July 31, 2010

Make your site accessible, To help you achieve this I have put together a 100 point checklist.

The first 20 Points are available here for FREE.  A PDF with the full checklist will be available for download soon.

Checkpoint
1. Does Each page have a unique and helpful Title.
2. Does your site have a consistent layout.
3. Do all images have a ALT Tag with a helpful description of the image.
4. If your site has background music is it easily able to turned off by your visitor.
5. Are there Text based alternatives to any Flash based content.
6. Do all links contain accurate descriptions on where they redirect the user to.
7. Do the colors on your web site have appropriate contrast.
8. Do you have text based alternatives to any Java based content on your site.
9. Have you provided text based alternatives to any multimedia content on your web site e.g. videos, flash animations.
10. If you have used forms in your site do all the appropriate elements have labels.
11. Does your web site still flow logicaly if the user has style sheets disabled.
12. If you have used frames does each frame have an accurate title so it can be easily identified.
13. If data tables are present do you they have meaningful Row and column Headers.
14. Have you provided detailed descriptions of any table.
15. Have you used the clearest and simplest language for site content.
16. Have you Divided large blocks of information into more manageable groups where natural and appropriate.
17. Have you provided keyboard shortcuts for the appropriate links.
18. Have you provided the appropriate Metadata for each page.
19. Did you use style sheets to control layout and formating where appropriate.
20. Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.

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Week 1: Perceivable

Posted by admin – February 13, 2010

1 Perceivable put simply provide provide text equivalants for any non text content on your site so that the End user can change into a format they can acess.

1.1 “Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.” This guideline point is really quite simple just provide text equivalants to any content on your site that is not text based.

1.2 “Provide alternatives for time-based media” Providing time based content on your web site such as presentations can look good to most users, however you should always provide a non timed version of this content so the user can go through as there own pace if required.

1.3 “Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example simpler layout) without losing information or structure.” Provide content on your site so that the structure on content is not lost in the layout or format of the site is changed or provide a text alternative if this can not be avoided. Make sure the user looses nothing if sound is not enabled or the graphics or multimedia content on the site are not displayed.

1.4 “Make it easier for users to see and hear content including separating foreground from background.” This can be achieved by using color to define the background of a site and define separate parts of your web site using different colors or fonts. If using sound in your web site make sure if the sound or video goes for more than 3 seconds make sure to provide a way to pause the sound and or control the sounds volume independently to the systems volumes controls. Allow the ability for text to be re sized up to 200% without loosing the structure or layout of the site.

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