Accessibility Checklist - Education Commons

Web Accessibility

What’s On Your Page

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Note: this form does not submit. Use it to keep track of what you have done to address accesibility concerns on your page or site.
Many items on the checklist include links to the WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria and other resources.

Basic Checklist

Select techniques used for general features you have on your web page

All non-text content has a text alternative. (Follow Guideline 1.1)
Text content is organized using p tags. (Follow Success Criterion 1.3.1)
Content is emphasized using em and strong tags, and doesn’t use b or i tags or solely rely on CSS to convey emphasis. (Follow Success Criterion 1.3.1)
Lists, groups of links, or other listable items are listed using ol, ul, or dl. (Follow Success Criterion 1.3.1)
The content of a web page can be perceived easily when reading from top to bottom in the source code. (Follow Success Criterion 1.3.2)
The presentation of a web page does not rely on a single sensory characteristic such as shape, size, visual location, orientation, or sound. (Follow Success Criterion 1.3.3)
Colour is not the only way to distinguish information or indicating anything else on a web page. (Follow Success Criterion 1.4.1)
All text and images of text have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, large-scale text has a contrast ratio of at least 3:1. (Follow Success Criterion 1.4.3)
Web page does not lose quality when resized to 200%. (Follow Success Criterion 1.4.4)
Text is used to convey information rather than images of text if it’s possible at all. (Follow Success Criterion 1.4.5)
All functionality of the web page is available through keyboard without requiring specific timing for keystrokes. (Follow Success Criterion 2.1.1)
All components that receive keyboard focus can be unfocused via the keyboard. (Follow Success Criterion 2.1.2)
A mechanism exists to bypass reoccurring blocks on a web page, such as the navigation menus. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.1)
The web page has a title tag that describes the topic/purpose accurately. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.2)
Components receive focus in a predictable order. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.3)
All links describe its purpose accurately by itself or within the context of the links. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.4)
There are at least two ways to navigate from the web page. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.5)
Headings are used properly in a hierarchical fashion, and describe the topic accurately. (Follow Guideline 1.1 and Success Criterion 2.4.6)
All elements that receive focus from keyboard navigation retains its focus indicator. (Follow Success Criterion 2.4.7)
The html tag includes the lang=”en-ca” attribute. (Follow Success Criterion 3.1.1)
A component doesn’t change the context of the web page when it receives focus from either the mouse or keyboard. (Follow Success Criterion 3.2.1)
A user interface component (such as a drop-down box) doesn’t change the context of a web page when it’s changed. (Follow Success Criterion 3.2.2)
Navigation menus that appear on multiple web pages appear in the same order. (Follow Success Criterion 3.2.3)
Functional components (search boxes, etc.) that appear in multiple web pages are identified consistently. (Follow Success Criterion 3.2.4)
Web page passes the W3C Validator. (Follow Success Criterion 4.1.1)

Web Accessibility

What’s On Your Page

Basic Checklist

Form Checklist

Animated Content Checklist

Commitment Form Checklist

Autoplay Audio Content Checklist

Time Limit Checklist

Table Checklist

CAPTCHA Checklist

Visual-only Presentation Checklist

Audio-Video Checklist

Audio-only Checklist

Multiple-language Checklist