Use the Accessibility Checker Menu Tool
About this Menu Tool
A new tool is available in the menu when editing content on Amherst College Webpages.
The icon is found at the far right of the editing menu. It is a person with outstretched arms and is labeled Accessibility Checker. See picture below.
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Instructions for Use
The Accessibility Checker will check and flag the article or specific content being edited for the following accessibility issues:
- Incorrect headings or missing headings
- Will identify text that should be set as a heading and is instead formatted as bold.
- In some cases will identify non-sequential headings i.e. h2 followed by h5.
- List structure
- Will identify if you’ve manually formatted a numbered or bulleted list.
- Image ALT text
- It will check for alt text which in our case is required for images and should never be missing.
- It will also check that the alt text is NOT the same as the image filename and prompt for use of meaningful alt text.
- For Tables the checker will prompt for the following:
- Caption, which appears at top.
- Header cell - leave set to header row and click repair. Top row of table needs to have header-type content to satisfy this requirement.
- “Table headers must be applied to a row or column” - this sets a tag for every header cell.
- Leave set to row and click repair.
- You will have click once for each column.
- Best practice for tables is to leave defaults and keep clicking repair.
More Information
A demonstration for using this tool is available at Youtube:
For more detailed information about the Accessibility Checker menu tool go to the Tinymce website.