Day 2: Common Accessibility Problems

Agenda

• Common Accessibility Problems
• Web Accessibility Checklist, Tools & Techniques
• Activity: Fixing a university home page
• Discussion: How can I use these skills?

Example Pages

• Heading Structure
• Accessibility of Images
• Accessibility of Forms
• Accessibility of Foreign Languages

Tools

• WAVE Toolbar
• Firebug
• Web Developer Toolbar (for Firefox)
• Web Accessibility Toolbar (for IE)
• NVDA (free screen reader)

Web Validators and Accessibility Checkers

• W3C HTML Validator
• W3C CSS Validator
• W3C MobileOK Checker
• WAVE
• Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE)

Class Resources

• Web Accessibility Checklist
• Accessible University home page