As the election looms I wanted to look at just how responsibly each major political party carries out its own policies and decided to do this by looking at website accessibility and just how careful they are about complying generally with the Guidelines for accessibility and general coding compliance.
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As the election looms I thought I would look at whether each major political party really means what it says with regard to accessibility, and just how careful they are about complying generally with accessibility guidelines and the accepted rules of the internet.
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With regard to website design a part of your considerations when it comes to accessibility should be the text size used on your website – ie is your text really large enough for older people and people with sight disabilities to read, AND is there sufficient differential between the text colour and the background colour to make the text readable. An quick and easy way to check this for your website is to use the online tool at AccessKeys which can be found here.
Try the Wave Page Analyser that will highlight problems on your website.
For accessibility rules see the W3C Accessibility Website
A useful online tool to test to see whether your website is accessible by people with disabilities do try the following. Although the report will cover many of the required criteria some criteria will need to be manually checked however the report will make this clear.