Question:

Accessibility checkers are fantastic tools to make sure that documents and websites can be accessed by persons with disabilities. Will a screen reader be able to read all the text in your document? How about images – are their meanings conveyed to users who can’t actually see them? Is there sufficient colour contrast on your website so users with colour blindness can see it? Are your videos closed captioned for people with hearing loss? Lots of things to consider!

Take a document of your choosing (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF) or a website and run it through an online accessibility checker.

Answer:

I ran the anonymous feedback form website through the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool and it came back with four errors and one alert. The things that are flagged on the website that there was no clear heading or page title to indicate what it was for, there was an error where the list was disordered, there was no heading structure and the drop down menu was confusing. What surprised me most is the disordered list alert, which makes sense because a person that is hard of hearing or has difficulty processing words might not understand the relation between the points. You can accommodate these issues by being more clear with the lists and making sure that the points relate to one another.