Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview
Summary
This page links to resources to help evaluate web accessibility. Accessibility evaluation is also called “assessment”, “audit”, and “testing”.
Page Contents
- Introduction
- Initial Checks
- Tools
- Conformance Evaluation and Reports
- People
- Standards
- Alternatives for Video Introduction – Resources Overview
Introduction
Alternatives for Video Introduction – Resources Overview
When developing or redesigning a website or web application, evaluate accessibility early and throughout the development process to identify accessibility problems early, when it is easier to address them.
There are evaluation tools that help with evaluation. However, no tool alone can determine if a site meets accessibility standards. Knowledgeable human evaluation is required to determine if a site is accessible.
Initial Checks
This video is available with more accessibility features: Video: Easy Checks Overview.
Even if you don’t know anything about accessibility and you don’t have a robust accessibility tool, you can check some aspects of accessibility.
Easy Checks — A First Review of Web Accessibility
Provides step-by-step guidance and brief explanations for checking some aspects of accessibility.
Tools
This video is available with more accessibility features: Video: Evaluation Tools Overview.
Web accessibility evaluation tools are software programs or online services that help determine if web content meets accessibility standards.
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
Includes information on more than 100 [...]