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TranslationsAccessibility Evaluation Resources
Recent and in-progress resources:
- W3C WAI Web Accessibility Evaluation and Testing Activities
- Introduces W3C WAI activities on web accessibility evaluation and testing that are on-going, in development, or planned for future development.
- Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)
- An internationally-harmonized methodology for evaluating website conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
"Evaluating Websites for Accessibility" is a multi-page resource suite that outlines different approaches for evaluating websites for accessibility. While it does not provide checkpoint-by-checkpoint testing techniques, it does provide general procedures and tips for evaluation in different situations, from evaluation during website development to ongoing monitoring of existing sites. The approaches in these pages are intended to supplement other content management and quality assurance procedures. Although some of the information is outdated, much of it is still relevant. The "Evaluating Websites for Accessibility" resource suite includes the following documents:
- Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
- Describes an approach to quickly identify some potential accessibility problems on a website.
- Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
- Describes an approach for detemining if a website meets accessibility standards, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
- Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
- Describes evaluation during the development process, ongoing monitoring, evaluation of legacy sites, and evaluation of dynamically generated Web pages.
- Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
- Provides guidance on including people with disabilities ("users") in accessibility evaluation throughout Web development.
- Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Provides guidance on choosing which Web accessibility evaluation tools to use to help evaluate Web accessibility.
- Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List Search
- Provides a comprehensive list of Web accessibility evaluation tools that is searchable and sortable.
- Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
- Describes the composition, training, and operation of teams of reviewers evaluating accessibility of websites.
- Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports
- Presents a format for communicating results of a Web accessibility evaluation.