VCU Web Accessibility
Scan your Page for Accessibility Errors
This page has been created to help you understand the Accessibility. There are many different tools you can use to check your website for accessibility compliance. VCU recommends http://www.contentquality.com/ as it is part of the Firefox Web Developer Extension. This site uses a program called Cynthia to analyze web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. Being a government website, you are required to be compliant with Section 508. It also checks for other errors and improvements that you can make in your code.
You can test you site here:
Section 508 Compliance Specifications
- Provide text equivalents for all non-text elements (i.e., images, animations, audio, video)
- Provide summaries of graphs and charts
- Ensure that all information conveyed with color is also available without color
- Clearly identify changes in the natural language of a document's text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions) of non-text content
- Organize content logically and clearly
- Provide alternative content for features (e.g., applets or plug-ins) that may not be supported
For More Information You Can Visit:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999
- Web Site Accessibility. Watchfire.com
- Americans with Disabilities Act Homepage
To download this plug-in you need to have Mozilla's Firefox browser. Here is the Plug-in Home Page With the most recent version.