{"id":2929,"date":"2025-02-05T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/?page_id=2929"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:50:43","slug":"lab-3-web-accessibility-tools-1-27","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/labs-and-assignments\/lab-3-web-accessibility-tools-1-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 3: Web Accessibility Tools (1\/27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Web accessibility guidelines help us to ensure that our content meets at least a minimum threshold for accessibility. While it’s a long way off from universal design<\/strong> (designing to make sure our projects are maximally accessible for a maximal audience), it’s an important first step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a variety of tools for evaluating accessibility. Tools like Funkify allow you to simulate various disabilities to get a sense of how design impacts usability. That’s useful to a point, although it’s always better (and necessary!) to talk to actual people whose lived experiences are a much better guide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we’ll use WAVE, the web accessibility evaluation tool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Choose a page on the SIUE website to evaluate, and run it through the checker at https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In a blog post (with the tag “Accessibility”), answer the following questions. Bullet points are fine!\n
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    • What accessibility issues crop up for the page you chose?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Who is most likely to need the content on the page?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • How might the accessibility issues impede people’s access to the content? Who might be most impacted? <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Name one or two ways that the accessibility of the site could be improved – the smaller and easier, the better!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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