11.8: Testing Your Site
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- 88212
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Accessibility Checkers and The Human Factor
Evaluation Chart
| Structure & appearance | Navigation links and placement consistent on each page. | M,C | ||
| Text good contrast to the background | V,C | |||
| Each page has a unique descriptive title | V,C | |||
| Valid XHTML/CSS used throughout the site | V,M,C | |||
| Images | All images have ALT text that either clearly describes the image, or in the case of decorative images, contains a space (alt=“ “) to prevent the screen reader from describing the image. | V | ||
| Images that cannot be adequately described in ALT text (charts, graphs) are further described on a LONGDESC page. | V | |||
| Links in imagemaps also have ALT text | V | |||
| Text & links | Fonts use a relative font size (em, %), not absolute (px, pt) | V,M,C | ||
| Heading tags (H1, H2) used correctly as headers, not to format font | V,M,C | |||
| Ability to skip navigation | V | |||
| Links separated by more than just whitespace | V | |||
| Colour not used to convey information, or reinforced by other visual cues | V | |||
| Underline not used on non-linked text | C | |||
| Link text does not repeat on the same page (e.g., “click here”) but is unique to each link. | V | |||
| TITLE attribute added to ambiguous links. | V | |||
| Lists use the UL/OL and LI tags, not bullet images | V,C | |||
| Coding should not prevent user from changing colours with own stylesheets | V,C | |||
| Tables | Tables used for data, not for layout | V | ||
| Table row or column headers indicated using the TH tag. | V,C | |||
| Table summary provided | V,C | |||
| Forms | Forms can be navigated in the correct order using the TAB key | V,M | ||
| Each form field has an associated LABEL tag | V | |||
| Enough time given to fill out forms | V,M,C | |||
| Required fields noted as such before the form label, and marked with asterisk or bold | V | |||
| Multimedia | Transcripts available for all audio | H | ||
| Transcripts or captioning available for all video | V,H | |||
| Content presented in Flash described in an alternative format as well | V,H,C | |||
| Avoid distracting animations, scrolling text | V,C | |||
| Links provided to download any necessary plug-ins | V,H,M,C | |||
| PDFs accessible or plain text made available | V | |||
| Content in applets and plug-ins accessible or else not required | V,M,C | |||
| If alert sounds are used, reinforce the sound using visual notification | H | |||
| Javascript | Site navigation still works with Javascript turned off. | V,C | ||
| Drop-down menus do not require difficult, precise mouse movement. | M, C | |||
| General | Passes automated accessibility validator such as Watchfire WebXact | V,H,M,C | ||
| Site can be navigated by keyboard only | V,M | |||
| User notified if pop-up windows are to be used | V,M,C | |||
| External windows do not open pop-up windows | V,M,C | |||
| No autoplay of music, or ability to turn off music easily | V | |||
| If frames must be used, they are clearly titled | V | |||
| Page still usable with stylesheets turned off | V,C | |||
| Site includes search engine | V,M,C | |||
| Distracting animations avoided | V,C | |||
| Pages do not automatically refresh | V,M,C | |||
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