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Workshop: Accessibility Testing

Wednesday, May 25
The Review Procedure

Fill out an accessibility self review as you go through the following steps.

  1. Validate your (X)HTML using Tidy in HTML-Kit.
  2. Validate your CSS using the W3C's CSS Validation Service.
  3. To see how your site would look/function in a text-only or aural browser, open your site in Mozilla Firefox and select "Disable > Disable Styles > All Styles" in the developers' toolbar.
  4. To see how your site will look to users with 800x600 screen resolution, select "Resize > 800x600" in the developers' toolbar.
  5. To verify that navigation and content are accessible without images, select "Disable > Disable Images" in the developers' toolbar.
  6. To verify that color is not the sole means of communicating any important information, select "Disable > Page Colors" in the developers' toolbar.
  7. Review the Section 508 Guidelines for any remaining issues. (Feel free to use WAVE, WebXACT, or Cynthia Says.)

When you are done, print two copies, sign one or both, then turn a signed copy in to Daniel and keep one for yourself.