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* Evaluate a website according to the [http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0]
Evaluate a website according to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) principles
 
Older version focusing on content:
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/full-checklist Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0]


Since WCAG 1.0 has now been replaced by the [http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/ more complex WCAG 2.0], you also could use the following:
Since WCAG 1.0 has now been replaced by the [http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/ more complex WCAG 2.0], you also could use the following:
* [http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist WCAG 2.0 Checklist] (HTML version)
* [http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist WCAG 2.0 Checklist] (HTML version)
* [http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/WCAG2Checklist.pdf WCAG 2.0 Checklist] (PDF version)
* [http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/WCAG2Checklist.pdf WCAG 2.0 Checklist] (PDF version)
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=== Wednesday ===
=== Wednesday ===

Revision as of 23:34, 17 April 2011

COAP 2170 Week 6 program

Topic: Accessibility

Monday

Introduction (videos)
Principles
Categories of users
  • visual, motor, auditory, seizures, cognitive
Online accessbility testing
  • TAW3 online checks WCAG 2.0 compliance at all levels. E.g. our friendly university home page has 431 problems and 93 warnings .....
  • UITest.com. This is an all-in-one service for accessibility, validity and miscellaneous. Enter a URL and the do checking using various other services.

See Accessibility Evaluation Tools at WebAIM and Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools at W3C for larger lists.

Designers web browser extensions (some are alternatives to online tools)
Assistive technology for browsers
Classroom activity

Evaluate a website according to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) principles

Older version focusing on content:

Since WCAG 1.0 has now been replaced by the more complex WCAG 2.0, you also could use the following:

Use an online service to help you with this task.

Wednesday

Homework 6