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Content Link

1. Analyze the accessibility of your webpage by entering the URL for your webpage in the WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool .
2. On the left side of your screen, select No Styles.
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3. Look at the top of the webpage for a hyperlink that says “Skip to Content.”
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4. If the hyperlink is there, open your webpage in another tab to it and press Enter to make sure that it works.
5. If it skips to the content, continue tabbing to make sure that it tabs through the content.

Alternative Text

1. Open a new tab.
2. Go to the Wave Web Accessibility Tool
3. Enter . Is the Skip to Content link visible?
4. If not, using the Tab key, see if the Skip to Content link becomes visible as you Tab through the top of the page.  If so, select it by pressing Enter and make sure that it moves the visual focus to the main content area of the page.

Alternative Text

1. Using the WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, enter the URL for your webpage.
2. On the left side of the screen, click on select the flag tab underneath the clipboard tab.
   
3. Look at the errors denoted in red indicating errors in alternative text or missing alternative text.
   
4. Click on the red error boxes to see where these features are missingsee which images are missing alt text. 

Navigation

1. Click While your webpage is open in your browser, click on the address bar at the top of your browser.
2. Put your mouse under your desk or somewhere where that you cannot reach it.
3. Hit tabPress the Tab key. Continue hitting tab pressing Tab to see if you can continually access all of the content on the webpage.
4. Be sure that items in drop down menus are either usable from the keyboard (using the Tab or arrow keys) or that all of the information that is in those drop down menus is available and usable from the keyboard only on the destination page for the main menu item.
5. Pay attention to the tab Tab order. Does it jump from one side of the page to another? Or does it go in a logical, orderly fashion? (For example, down the left hand column, down the center, and down the right hand column.)

Tab Focus

1. Open Using the instructions from Navigation (above), Tab through your webpage.
2. Instead of using the mouse to navigate the page, use the tab button.
3. When you are tabbing through your webpage, check to see if there is Is there is a visual indicator, i.e. a box outline, an underline, or font color change, to indicate where you are on the webpage.?
   

Descriptive Hyperlinks

1. Look at the hyperlinks on your webpage.
2. Check to see if any of them say things like “Read more,” “View All,” or “More.”more”, “Continue” or "Click here."
3. Do any hyperlinks that have the same text same text lead to different places? For example, two hyperlinks that are “Read More”, but lead to different destinations?
4. Check for hyperlinks that are shown simply as show the URL rather than displaying a description of the destination page. For example, use Syracuse University Libraries rather than http://library.syr.edu.

Contrast

1.  Using the Wave WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, click on  select the contrast button.
   
2. After clicking on the contrast button, you You will see the contrast errors found on your webpage. Click on each error to see where they are where it appears on your webpage.
   

Form Labels

1.   Using the Wave WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, scroll down through the errors until you see an error titled "missing to see "Missing form label" is listed."  (Note: If you do not see this as an error, it means your site has all of its form boxes labeledelements labeled correctly or there are no form elements on the page.)
   

Headings

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1. Using the Wave WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, click on the icon on the left that looks like a little piece of paper. It is the bottom icon.
   
2. Make sure that all of your headings are labeled as such and that your page has headings.

1. All of the headings on your page will be listed. Do you have headings?
2. Does the heading text for each heading make sense when read on its own?

Captioning

1. On the video tool bar, click on the button that says “CC.” (If there is no CC button that means there is no closed captioning.)
   
2. If the video has captions, turn off the volume on the video totally off. Hit play.Watch . Play the video without sound. See if Can you can fully understand the message from the captions?
3. If not, turn up the volume and watch the video again.  Are there a lot of errors in the captions?

External Documents

1. Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint have accessibility checkers built-in.  Use these tools to check the accessibility of all documents you link from your webpages.