The Australian Human Rights Commission has detailed ten common failures. These are:

1. Failure to include appropriate text descriptions (such as “alt-text” labels) for images;
2. Failure to provide accessible alternatives when using a visual CAPTCHA;
3. Failure to use technologies (such as Flash and JavaScript) in ways that are accessible;
4. Failure to use HTML features appropriately to indicate content structure such as the hierarchy of headings;
5. Failure to explicitly associate form input controls with their labels;
6. Failure to ensure sufficient difference between foreground (text) colour and background colour;
7. Failure to identify data tables with Summary or Caption, and failure to mark-up data tables correctly;
8. Failure to provide a way for users to disable content such as advertisements from flashing rapidly (rapidly-flashing content may cause seizures in susceptible individuals), and failure to provide a way for users to stop a page from auto-refreshing;
9. Failure to ensure that web pages can be used from the keyboard (that is, without the mouse);
10. Failure to alert the user to changes on a web page that are triggered automatically when selecting items from a dropdown menu.

Gian Wild can review your site against these ten common failures. This is a step towards a complete accessibility audit, and can be used to gauge the general level of accessibility compliance of the site, without conducting a full evaluation.

An easy-to-read report will be generated, along with a one page A4 summary of results.

To enquire about “Ten common failures” review, please use the contact form.