WebCT Page Accessibility Evaluation

Announcement: WebCT Page Accessibility Evaluation

Announcement: WebCT Page Accessibility Evaluation

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Please use this form to provide your accessibility evaluation report. You can send the result as an e-mail to Hadi Rangin or the person(s) in charge of the collaboration group. You can also click on the "Print view" button and use the "Save as" option of your browser to save the result locally on your computer. Please note that the evaluation results are not saved if you are not in "Print view" mode.
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WebCT Evaluation Information

Jon Gunderson

 

Vista 4

Announcements

 

Jon Gunderson

 

Functional Web Accessibility Testing

Functional Accessibility Rating

Navigation

 Conformance Rating

N.1 Does the web page have a unique TITLE element and at least one H1 that is a subset of the TITLE content?

   No   Comment for N.1: Title element and h1 doesn't reflect the the view:

N.2 Do menus and navigation bars have H2 elements before their links to provide orientation, and do those menu bars, exapandable menu bars, and other expansion controls change their labels based on whether they are expanded or not? NOTE: Headings can be hidden using CSS techniques based on the "position: absolute" property; do not use "display: none" or "visibility: hidden" since these techniques hide information from screen readers.

   No   Comment for N.2: Tabs don't accurately describe current view

N.3 Do all major/minor topics have headings (H2-H6) and the headings provide useful orientation information to the content on the web page?
NOTE: Headings should not be used to stylize text.

 Yes     Comment for N.3: No comments

N.4 Do all links indicate the target of the links?
NOTE: The same link text should not be used to point to different URIs and references to the same URI should use the same link text.

 Yes     Comment for N.4: Go to links do not work with all screen reader, also hard to get support for

N.5 Do all form controls of have descriptive labels?

   No   Comment for N.5: No labels on checkboxes

N.6 Do groups of related form controls have labels, this includes using fieldset/legend or headings (h2-h6) to indicate the relationship between the form controls?

    N/A Comment for N.6: No comments

N.7 Do changes in language of content use the LANG attribute to markup the new language?

 Not rated Comment for N.7: No comments

N.8 Do data tables use CAPTION elements, TH elements, TH.ID attributes and TD.HEADERS attributes to title and indicate cell relationships?

 Not rated Comment for N.8: No comments

N.9 Do lists of items use UL, OL or DL list markup.?

 Not rated Comment for N.9: No comments

N.10 Do frames have useful TITLE attributes?
NOTE: Frames used for client/server interaction or do not contain viable content should be marked as title="hidden".

 Not rated Comment for N.10: No comments

N.11 Does content make sense when the page is linearized (i.e. table markup and/or stylesheets are disabled)?

 Not rated Comment for N.11: No comments

Text Equivalents

 Conformance Rating

E.1 Do all decorative images set ALT=''?
NOTE: Decorative images do not carry any content but are used purely for graphical styling (i.e. spacers, divider lines, ..), ideally these should all be moved to CSS techniques.

 Not rated Comment for E.1: No comments

E.2 Do all content carrying and icon images have descriptive ALT text?

 Not rated Comment for E.2: No comments

E.3 Does the ALT text for all images used for links or form control buttons match the onscreen text?
NOTE: If an image is used in conjunction with text links that ALT='' text should be null, otherwise the link text is spoken twice in screen readers.

 Not rated Comment for E.3: No comments

E.4 Do all OBJECTs/APPLETS have text descriptions and alerntaive accessible version of the content and functions provided by the applet or object.

 Not rated Comment for E.4: No comments

E.5 Are text transcipts of audio, video+audio and other multimedia available?

 Not rated Comment for E.5: No comments

E.6 Are Text transcipts video+audio and other multimedia with visual and auditory renderings synchoronized with visual rendering?

 Not rated Comment for E.6: No comments

E.7 Are links available to play multi-media content in external multi-media players?

 Not rated Comment for E.7: No comments

Styling

 Conformance Rating

Y.1 Does content reflow when browser text zooming features change font size?
NOTE: As content reflows the user should not need to use the horizontal scrolling features to view content and text content should not overlap with other text content.

 Not rated Comment for Y.1: No comments

Y.2 Does content reflow when the graphical window width changes.
NOTE: As content reflows the user should not need to use the horizontal scroll features to view content.

 Not rated Comment for Y.2: No comments

Y.3 Is content still usable when high contrast stylesheets are applied to the web page?
NOTE: The Opera browser has built-in high contrast user stylesheets and the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension also provides a high contrast stylesheet feature.

 Not rated Comment for Y.3: No comments

Y.4 Are Background images used for decorative styling, instead of inline images?

 Not rated Comment for Y.4: No comments

Y.5 Is any image used to stylize text, except in logos and other branding icons?

 Not rated Comment for Y.5: No comments

Y.6 Is all content styled through CSS stylesheets, no in-line styling elements are used (i.e. B, I, FONT, CENTER, BLINK, MARQUEE, ...)?

 Not rated Comment for Y.6: No comments

Y.7 Do dynamic CSS pseudo-classes like :hover have corresponding :focus dynamic pseudo-class selectors.
NOTE: Keyboard movement of fous should cause changes in stypling, similar to :hover effects.

 Not rated Comment for Y.7: No comments

Scripting and Automation

 Conformance Rating

R.1 Can all functions of the web page be performed with only the keyboard?

 Not rated Comment for R.1: No comments

R.2 Is any OnChange event used for SELECT elements?

 Not rated Comment for R.2: No comments

R.3 Are session time outs adjustable by the user?

 Not rated Comment for R.3: No comments

R.4 Can animations be paused and restarted by the user?

 Not rated Comment for R.4: No comments

R.5 Is any content that flickers between 2-55 Hz disabled by default, users must be warned of the flickeering before the content is started?

 Not rated Comment for R.5: No comments

R.6 Is an accessible alternative for embedded Java Applets, Flash and other APPLETS and OBJECTS available?

 Not rated Comment for R.6: No comments

Standards

 Conformance Rating

S.1 Is DOCTYPE specified?

 Not rated Comment for S.1: No comments

S.2 Is default language specified?

 Not rated Comment for S.2: No comments

S.3 Is character encoding specified?

 Not rated Comment for S.3: No comments

 

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