Manual Evaluation Checkpoints

Select a Checkpoint to see an overview, the evaluation question(s) and possible solutions.

Many well-meaning developers assume that "if a blind person can use the page, it's accessible. Unfortunately, accessibility is not as simple as that. Users with low vision (of which there are many forms), users with cognitive disabilities, users with degraded motor skills, deaf users, and many other groups need quite different accommodations than do the blind. Please remember these groups as you are evaluating each checkpoint.

This procedure is designed to be used in parallel with an automated accessibility evaluation report produced by HiSoftware® AccMonitor or similar tools; it could also be used on its own without automated assistance.

Automated evaluation tools only check things that can be evaluated by a computer. These definitely do not include the human factors that are contained here. Even looking at human factors cannot guarantee accessibility for every possible user, but following this procedure will certainly represent a good-faith effort to make a page or site as accessible as possible today.