Syllabus: WebCT Page Accessibility Evaluation

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WebCT Evaluation Information

Don Amos

 

Vista 4

Syllabus

 

 

 

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 is non-specific (WebCT) and no level-one header present.

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: Syllabus navigation missing title tag.

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: Four headings are revealed: Syllabus (h1), Student View(h2, tab), Course Tools(h2, menu), My Tools (h2, menu). Course Tools and My Tools headers in left-hand menu frame indicate no link text for menu items in the

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.

   No   Comment for N.4: List of 53 links shows several links with non-descriptive link text: d, s, paper1, a, rs. Several links have javascript href to be avoided. few links have title attribute.

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

   No   Comment for N.5: Two undetermined forms missing titles

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?

     N/A 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?

   No   Comment for N.8: No comments

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

 Yes     Comment for N.9: Left-hand-side navigation/menu bar is ul of hyperlinks targeting the content frame (target=

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".

   No   Comment for N.10: 15 frames uncovered by MEE. Eight frames hidden and two of seven remaining missing title attribute, one blank. Title text reads ok for given frames.

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

   No   Comment for N.11: When table layout is removed the tabbed top frame appears to disappear behind the content and nav frames. When CSS disabled, keyboard navigation fails.

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.

 Yes     Comment for E.1: All inconsequential information appears to have null alt text.

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

 Yes     Comment for E.2: Menu bar list item graphic (gif) bullets have empty alt attribute and also the trailing image.

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.

 Yes     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.

     N/A Comment for E.4: No comments

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

     N/A 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?

     N/A Comment for E.6: No comments

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

     N/A 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.

   No   Comment for Y.1: Magnifying content beyond 150% begins to obscure view of content.

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.

 Yes     Comment for Y.2: re-sizing browser window does not impede view--content frame

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.

   No   Comment for Y.3: Using both high contrast stylesheets in MAE inhibits viewing some text and the enlarged font hides tabs and displaces menus.

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

     N/A Comment for Y.4: No comments

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

   No   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, ...)?

 Yes     Comment for Y.6: Styles are correctly applied through style rules in external stylesheet, exceptions being the opening body tag (style=

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.

   No   Comment for Y.7: Keyboard does not highligt menu list item.

Scripting and Automation

 Conformance Rating

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

 Yes     Comment for R.1: No comments

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

     N/A Comment for R.2: No select elements present

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

     N/A Comment for R.3: WebCT timeout

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

     N/A Comment for R.4: No animation present

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?

     N/A Comment for R.5: No animation present

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

     N/A Comment for R.6: No apparent animation or objects

Standards

 Conformance Rating

S.1 Is DOCTYPE specified?

 Yes     Comment for S.1: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

S.2 Is default language specified?

   No   Comment for S.2: No comments

S.3 Is character encoding specified?

   No   Comment for S.3: No comments

 

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