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How do you find the right digital accessibility checklist to use during the design phase? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has made several resources available to validate maintains a How To Meet WCAG (Quick Reference) guide to support you in validating the accessibility of your digital resources.
These checklists This guide can be immediately helpful to for developers but may be overwhelming for content creators who have less experience with digital design. That being the case, Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) has developed a more digestible set of accessibility principles: , Deque University, and Level Access have each developed their own, more digestible resources to support WCAG 2 compliance:
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Automated Accessibility Evaluation Tools
There are a number of free automated evaluation tools available online. Siteimprove is an automated quality assurance tool to which all pdx.edu content editors managers may request access via the Siteimprove Access Request form. In addition to measuring general quality assurance by detecting things like misspellings and broken links, Siteimprove will also test for common accessibility issues like missing alternate text or heading structure. The following are some additional, automated accessibility evaluation tools that may be helpful to you:
Please note that automated evaluation tools will only help you to locate and repair the most obvious accessibility issues. To ensure WCAG 2 compliance, you must evaluate digital resources manually.
Manual Testing With Adaptive Technology
At minimum, digital resources should be manually tested for keyboard navigability and the accessibility of images, headings, links, media, and color. Optimally, screen reading software can be used to determine whether all functions can be accessed equitably via keyboard. The following are some resources to help you get started:
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