Accessibility Assesssment

Overview

You understand how to find problems with a website or app as defined by the WCAG guidelines.

Best practices

Demonstrate that you can use an accessibility checker and accessibility technologies to assess whether a web page or app is accessible according to W3C guidelines. This might include things like identifying potential issues with the POUR guidelines such as:

missing image descriptions
incorrect structure for forms
lack of language information
incorrect header structure
bad color contrast

You should be able to apply web/app accessibility rules to understand conformance and identify violations on:

whether content is perceivable
whether content is operable
whether content is understandable
whether content is robust

How to demonstrate this competency: Turn in UARS generated based on the accessibility checker and a reflection describing which automated tool you used, what you liked most and disliked most about it, and how you checked POUR using it.

Rubric for this Competency

Excellent: Your UARS are detailed and your reflection demonstrates an understanding of multiple areas of POUR. The UARS are different, and reflect the strengths of the tools used (e.g. you found problems with the ATs that automated checkers cannot find as easily)
Competent: Fewer UARS; reflection shows understanding of how to assess at least one area of POUR
Not Competent: Your UARS lack detail and/or reflection describes assessment but lacks engagement with POUR or depth

Typical Handin for this Competency

Your UARS (the number required depends on the assignment, but a minimum requirement is that they reflect multiple areas of POUR)
A link to the app or website your were testing if it is publicly available; and the names of the automated tool and ATs you used
Explain how your UARs cover at least two areas of POUR