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Some basic tests to check your website for accessibility

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The Disability Discrimination Act says that websites must be

made accessible to disabled people. So how can you check that

your website is up to par? There are a number of basic tests you

can make to address some of the main issues. The following list

includes guidelines that provide a good start in increasing

accessibility to disabled people:



1. Check informational images for alternative text Place the

cursor over an informational image, for example, the

organisation logo. Does a yellow box appear with a brief,

accurate description of the image? For users whose browsers do

not support images, this alternative text is what they will see

(or hear) in place of the image.

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2. Check decorative images for alternative text Place the cursor

over a decorative image that does not have any function other

than to look nice. Does a yellow box appear with a description

of the image? It should not. There is no reason for users whose

browsers do not support images to know that this image is there,

as it serves no purpose.



Be careful though as this is not a foolproof test. If a yellow

box does not appear, this could mean one of two things:



The alternative text of the image is assigned a null value,

which means that it will be ignored by browsers that do not

support images. This is the ideal scenario. The alternative

text of the image is simply not set at all, which means that

users whose browsers do not support images will be alerted to

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its existence but will be unable to find out what purpose it

carries something which is very frustrating! This is certainly

not the desired outcome.



3. Listen to any video or audio content with the volume turned

off If you turn your speakers off, you are clearly unable to

listen to, or follow, any audio content. This situation is faced

by a deaf person on a daily basis. Ensure your website supplies

written transcripts, so that deaf people can understand the

message that your website is conveying.



4. Check that forms are accessible Usually there is prompt text

next to each item in a form. For example, a contact form might

have the prompt text name, e-mail, and comments, each one

next to a box where your site users will enter the information.

When you click on the prompt text, does a flashing cursor appear

in the box next to that text? If not, your forms are

inaccessible.



5. Check that text can be resized In Internet Explorer (used by

over 90% of Internet users) go to View > Font size > Largest.

Does the text on your website increase in size? If not, then

your website is inaccessible to web users with poor visibility.



6. Check your website in the Lynx browser The Lynx browser is a

text-only browser and does not support many of the features that

other browsers such as Internet Explorer have. You can check how

your site looks in this browser with the Lynx Viewer, available

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7. Check that you can access all areas of your website without

the use of a mouse Can you navigate through your website using

just tab, shift-tab and return? If not, then neither can

keyboard- and voice-only users.



8. Check that there is a site map Can you find a site map? If

not, then neither can people who are lost on your website.



9. Check your web pages with an automated program Two programs

available for free on the Internet are Bobby

(http://bobby.watchfire.com) and Wave

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with all the information that you need, as some checks must be

done by humans, but they can tell you some of the areas where

your site might be going wrong.



10. Hire an expert Hire a web accessibility professional to test

your website.



About the author:

This article was written by Trenton Moss of Webcredible

(http://www.webcredible.co.uk), the user-friendly website

experts. Find articles and tutorials about web usability, web

accessibility, web credibility, search engine optimisation and

CSS in the extensive web development resources

(http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/) area of

their website.