Where to Find the Top 10 Accessibility Features

Skip to Content 

1. Using Firefox, go to the menu and select “View.”
   
2. Next, in the drop down menu, select “Page Style.”
3. Select “No Style.”
   
4. Look at the top of the webpage for a hyperlink that says “Skip to Content.”
   
5. If the hyperlink is there, tab to it and press Enter to make sure that it works.
6. 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 the URL for your webpage.
4. On the left side of the screen, click on the flag tab underneath the clipboard tab.
   
5. Look at the errors denoted in red indicating errors in alternative text or missing alternative text.
   
6. Click on the red error boxes to see where these features are missing. 

Navigation

1. Click on the address bar at the top of your browser.
2. Put your mouse under your desk or somewhere where you cannot reach it.
3. Hit tab. Continue hitting 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 on the destination page for the main menu item.
5. Pay attention to the 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 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 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.”
3. Do any hyperlinks that have the 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 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 Web Accessibility Tool, click on the contrast button.
   
2. After clicking on the contrast button, you will see the contrast errors on your webpage. Click on each error to see where they are on your webpage.
   

Form Labels

1.   Using the Wave Web Accessibility Tool, scroll down through the errors until you see an error titled "missing form label." (Note: If you do not see this as an error, it means your site has all of its form boxes labeled.)
   

Headings

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 the volume on the video totally off. Hit play.
3. Watch the video without sound. See if you can fully understand the message from the captions.

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