Website Accessibility Checklist

Use the following points as a reminder of items to check on your websites.

  1. Are menus navigable with a keyboard?
    • Is keyboard focus visible?
    • Is the tab order logical?
  2. Are headings used appropriately?
    • Used for structure and not for visual purposes?
    • Hierarchical, without skipped levels?
  3. Do links concisely describe the destination?
  4. Do all images have descriptive alternative text or long descriptions?
    • Ensure that alt text is not the file name.
    • Ensure that you have not used ‘null’ alt text when an image does convey meaning to visual users. For example, when there is text in an image.
  5. Are videos captioned accurately?
  6. Do videos have an audio description or transcript to convey visual information?
  7. Do audio files have an accurate transcript?
  8. Is color contrast sufficient? Pay special attention to:
    • Themes as a whole.
    • Text with image backgrounds.
    • Images with text.
  9. Have you run each page through an automated testing tool such as WAVE or SiteImprove and resolved all errors? Have you manually checked alerts?
  10. What other types of content do you have added to the site (e.g. downloadable files)?
    • Are these files also accessible?
  11. Which pages have interactive features? (e.g. menus, photo sliders, media players, forms, dialog boxes, etc.)
    • Are all features usable with only a keyboard? If not, consider alternatives.
    • Are all features usable with a screen reader? (Test for yourself or request an evaluation.)