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Beyond the Tools - Testing if Stevie Wonder Can Use the Site.

Think - does the site

• have structure (headings, lists, table headers, etc.)
• make sense (front load text, links, flow)
• make the content available to all (alt, media alternatives)
• inform the user (label, fieldset, title, warn for new windows, acronyms, page title, etc.)
• function (keyboard access, work without javascript, listable)

Look and Listen

• alt (appropriate, accurate, "", verbose )
  • The Art of ALT
  • Use of ALT texts in IMGs
  • Alt and beyond: Making web graphics accessible
  • Howlers
• structure (headings, lists)
• links (click here, same name/same place, href=name, popup, keyboard function, duplicate image & text, skip, url)
  • Links Want To Be Links
  • Why "Click here" is bad linking practice
  • Accessible Navigation
  • Accessible Pop-up links
  • Link Usability/Accessibility
  • Hide Text
• forms (labels/for=id, titles, fieldset/legend, order)
  • Creating Accessible Forms
  • Making Accessible Forms
  • Hide Text
• tables (caption, summary, th/scope, header=id, abbr)
  • Creating Accessible Tables
  • Techniques for Accessible HTML Tables (very technical)
  • Hide Text
• alternative formats (transcripts, PDF, Word, contact info)
  • Accessible multimedia
  • Captions
  • Macromedia Accessibility
  • Adobe Acrobat - How To Create Accessible Adobe® PDF Files Booklet
  • Creating accessible PDFs with Acrobat 7.0
• check flow (WAVE)

Test

• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility (W3)
• Evaluating Web Site Accessibility (WebAIM)
• Use an automated Accessibility validation tool
  • Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility (W3)
• Validate HTML syntax
  • HTML/XHTML
• Validate style sheets
  • CSS
• Use a text-only Browser
  • Lynx / Lynx Viewer
• Use multiple browsers, with browser-based accessibility tools to disable:
  • Images
  • Style Sheets
  • JavaScript
  • Frames
  • Sound
  • Color (vision impairment simulator)
  • Flash
• Use browser-based accessibility checking tools
  • Accessible Web Development Tools and References (NILS)
    • Accessibility Toolbar (NILS)
    • Colour Contrast Analyzer (NILS)
  • Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla and Accessibility Extensions for IE
  • Fangs
  • aDesigner
  • Using Opera to Check for Accessibility
• Use a Text-to-Speech Browser (HPR, Jaws)
• Use keyboard to navigate (skip nav)
• Use a small display
  • Scale Window
  • Scale fonts
• Use spell and grammar checkers
• Review the site for clarity and simplicity.
• Invite people with disabilities to review the site.
  • Web accessibility for screen magnifier users
  • Big, Stark, & Chunky

Types of REVIEW

• automated
• manual
• user testing
• design
• monitoring (Simple Tool for Error Prioritization (STEP))
  • preliminary/cursory
  • conformance
• legacy
• dynamic

JAWS Keystrokes for Internet Explorer

General

• Go Back a Page ALT+LEFT ARROW
• Read Address Bar INSERT+A
• Next Link TAB Prior Link SHIFT+TAB
• Open Link ENTER
• List Frames INSERT+F9
• List Links INSERT+F7
• List Headings INSERT+F6
• Personalized Web Settings SHIFT+INSERT+V
• Virtual HTML Features INSERT+F3
• Activate Mouse Over CTRL+ENTER JAWS
• Find Next and Previous (IE only) F3 and SHIFT+F3

Navigation Quick Keys

• Next Anchor A
• * Next Button B
• * Next Combo Box C
• * Next Different Element D
• Next Edit Box E
• * Next Form Control F
• Next Graphic G
• * Next Heading H
• Next Item in a List I
• Jump to Line J
• Next PlaceMarker K
• Next List L
• * Next Frame M
• Skip Past Links N
• Next Object Tag O
• Next Paragraph P
• * Next Quote Q
• * Next Radio Button R
• * Next Same Element S
• Next Table T
• * Next Unvisited Link U
• Next Visited Link V
• Next Check Box X
• * Next Division Z
• * Previous Element SHIFT+COMMA
• Next Element SHIFT+PERIOD

Tip: If you hold down SHIFT before pressing one of the Navigation Quick Keys listed above, you can move to the previous instance of that element. In addition, if you hold down CTRL+INSERT while pressing keystrokes with an asterisk (*) next to them, JAWS displays a list of those elements on the page.

Forms

• Enter Forms Mode ENTER
• Exit Forms Mode NUM PAD PLUS
• List of Form Fields INSERT+F5

Tables

• Next Row WINDOWS KEY+DOWN ARROW
• Prior Row WINDOWS KEY+UP ARROW
• Read Row WINDOWS KEY+COMMA
• Read Column WINDOWS KEY+PERIOD
• Next Cell in Row ALT+CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
• Prior Cell in Row ALT+CTRL+LEFT ARROW
• Cell Below in Column ALT+CTRL+DOWN ARROW Cell
• Above in Column ALT+CTRL+UP ARROW
• Jump to Table Cell CTRL+J
• Return to Previous Cell CTRL+SHIFT+J

PlaceMarkers

• List PlaceMarkers CTRL+SHIFT+K
• Add Temporary PlaceMarker CTRL+K
• Move to the Next or Prior PlaceMarker K or SHIFT+K
• Read Text at PlaceMarker 1-0 CTRL+SHIFT+number
• Move to PlaceMarker 1-0 CTRL+SHIFT+number twice quickly

Note: The JAWS help system includes detailed information about using Internet Explorer. From within Internet Explorer, press and hold INSERT and press F1 twice quickly. Once JAWS help is open, press F6 to move to the help topic window.

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Last Revision: May 12, 2005