Assignment 2: Analyzing Web Sites for Accessibility

Syllabus | Due Date |

Anayzing Existing Web Resources for Accessibility

Part 1: Take at least three web pages that you have developed and evaluate them using the bobby software. Check each page for HTML validation, Section 508 and WCAG Double-AA conformance (Note: if you don't have any of your own web pages, you can evaluate other web pages of your choice on the web)

  1. Were the web pages use valid HTML?
  2. What known accessibility problems did Bobby detect?
  3. What did Bobby require you to manually check for accessibility?

Part 2: Use A-Prompt to evaluate and repair at least one of the web pages that you evaluated in Problem 1. (Note: if you don't have any of your own web pages, you can repair other web pages by use the "Save As" feature of most browsers to save a copy of a web resource to your local hard disk)

  1. Did A-prompt help you fix your accessibility problems?
  2. Did A-prompt find different accessibility problems?
  3. Did your repaired pages pass the accessibility checkers?

Send me a summary report the results of your evaluations and attempt to repair the content.

Due

March 7th, 2003