Web Access Centre

Web accessibility checklists

Summary: A checklist provides clear guidance to developers, designers and content producers when building pages.

• RNIB See it Right checklist
• Other checklists
• Plan and test

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Checklists are an invaluable part of the planning testing and evaluation process. As decisions are made regarding levels of compliance a site will reach, what functionality it will include, time scales and budgets, you will be able to start building your website accessibility checklist. The objectives of a checklist are to:

• Assign roles: issues identified can be assigned to key site stakeholders such as the developers, designers, content producers, third party content producers and so on.
• Track progress: checklists can be developed throughout the planning and building process to form a testing document used at launch and as a maintenance document post launch.
• Prioritise work: outlining issues in accordance to the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) priority levels A, AA or AAA helps prioritise work

RNIB See it Right checklist

The example checklist is of the See it Right checkpoints and issues relating to each checkpoint. The checklist is intended as a starting point for your own use. You can use this as a basis to produce your own checklist customised according to your project. For example, if your site does not use images maps then the section on image maps can be removed. Use the "See it Right checkpoints explained documents" as background for each checkpoint.

The top row in the website accessibility checklist includes fields that can be adjusted to suit your particular design and build needs. Further suggestions of columns that you may want to use are as follows:

• See it Right accessibility checklist – Excel 33.5KB, new window
• See it Right checkpoints explained – Word 381KB, new window

Other checklists

Additional checklists can be downloaded from the Web Accessibility Initiative, Section 508 and the IBM Accessibility centre:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) checklist
• Section 508 checklist
• IBM Web accessibility checklist

Plan and test

• Planning
• Intranets
• Content Management Systems
• Checklists
• Testing
• Maintenance

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Content author: webaccess@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 06/03/2008 15:41