Understanding Accessibility

Priority 3

The following checkpoints must be met in order for the website to be fully accessible. Click on the linked number to the left of each checkpoint to get further information on that checkpoint.

Guideline 1

1.5 - Until user agents render text equivalents for client-side image map links, provide redundant text links for each active region of a client-side image map

Guideline 2

2.2 - Ensure that foreground and background colour combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.

Guideline 4

4.2 - Specify the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it first occurs

4.3 - Identify the primary natural language of a document.

Guideline 5

5.5 - Provide summaries for tables

5.6 - Provide abbreviations for header labels.

Guideline 9

9.4 - Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects

9.5 - Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form controls

Guideline 10

10.3 - Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render side-by-side text correctly, provide a linear text alternative (on the current page or some other) for all tables that lay out text in parallel, word-wrapped columns

10.4 - Until user agents handle empty controls correctly, include default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas

10.5 - Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links

Guideline 11

11.3 - Provide information so that users may receive documents according to their preferences

Guideline 13

13.5 - Provide navigation bars to highlight and give access to the navigation mechanism.

13.6 - Group related links, identify the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provide a way to bypass the group

13.7 - If search functions are provided, enable different types of searches for different skill levels and preferences

13.8 - Place distinguishing information at the beginning of headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.

13.9 - Provide information about document collections (i.e., documents comprising multiple pages.)

13.10 - Provide a means to skip over multi-line ASCII art

Guideline 14

14.2 - Supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations where they will facilitate comprehension of the page

14.3 - Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages.