Tier 1 (Four times a year) (Includes Library home page and other selected high use pages.)
- Manual Testing: Manual review of WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
- Screen reader test: NVDA and TalkBack
- Keyboard navigability combined with a cognitive walkthrough
- Color contrast (for both text and interactive site elements)
- Color contrast for common color perception deficiencies
- Usefulness of labeling, alternate text, and other accessibility-related markup
Tier 2 (monthly) (The Libraries home page, pages that directly link off of the home page, and those that were among the previous month's top 50 most visited pages.)
- Automated testing and review of pages in Tier II (using Pa11y)
- Latest accessibility scan results
- Manual review of recently edited pages to see if any significant content/structure changes have occurred. (if so, further manual accessibility checking is done)
Tier 3 (Every other month) (All other pages on library.gmu.edu that aren’t part of Tier 1 or Tier 2.)
- Automated testing and review of pages
Additional Documentation
ILLiad web template accessibility enhancements
- Illiad 9.0 web templates accessibility enhancements
- The ILLiad 9.1 and 9.2 web templates are significantly better from an accessibility standpoint, having incorporated most of the changes suggested above, but still could be improved in a few ways:
Color Blindness simulations for University Libraries home page
- Achromatomaly
- Achromatopsia
- Deuteranomaly
- Deuteranopia
- Protanomaly
- Protanopia
- Tritanomaly
- Tritanopia
Also currently using WhoCanUse to test for contrast issues for color blind users.