Website Accessibility Checklist
Use the following points as a reminder of items to check on your websites.
- Are menus navigable with a keyboard?
- Is keyboard focus visible?
- Is the tab order logical?
- Are headings used appropriately?
- Used for structure and not for visual purposes?
- Hierarchical, without skipped levels?
- Do links concisely describe the destination?
- Do all images have descriptive alternative text or long descriptions?
- Ensure that alt text is not the file name
- Ensure that you have not used ‘null’ alt text when an image does convey meaning to visual users. For example, when there is text in an image.
- Are videos captioned accurately?
- Do videos have an audio description or transcript to convey visual information?
- Do audio files have an accurate transcript?
- Is color contrast sufficient? Pay special attention to:
- Themes as a whole
- Text with image backgrounds
- Images with text
- Have you run each page through an automated testing tool such as WAVE or SiteImprove and resolved all errors? Have you manually checked alerts?
- What other types of content do you have added to the site (e.g. downloadable files)
- Are these files also accessible?
- Which pages have interactive features? (e.g. menus, photo sliders, media players, forms, dialog boxes, etc.)
- Are all features usable with only a keyboard? If not, consider alternatives.
- Are all features usable with a screen reader? (Test for yourself or request an evaluation.)