Page Comparison

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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” or "Skip to main content."
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4. If the hyperlink is there, open your webpage in another tab. Is the Skip to Content link visible?
5. 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 works as intended and moves the visual focus to the main content area of the page.

Alternative Text (Alt text)

1. Using the WAVE Web Accessibility Tool, enter the URL for your webpage.
2. On When the results of the evaluation are displayed, on the left side of the screen, 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 which images are missing alt text. 

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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. Play the video. 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

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. For more information about how to use the accessibility checkers, refer to the relevant resources in Creating Accessible Content.