ADA Compliant Website Requirements

What does WCAG stand for?

• World Content Access Guidelines

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

• Web Creation Allowance Guidance

• World Collaboration Accessibility Guidelines

Answer explanation

Compliance with WCAG is a good way for a business to make its website accessible to users who are disabled while protecting itself against allegations of non-compliance.

Which of these is NOT a category in WCAG?

• Website Presentation

• Website Appearance

• Content Alternatives

• User Control

• Tags and Content

Answer explanation

These are the most recent WCAG standards categories.

Descriptive text: Any text used to describe the page titles, headings and link anchor text should be _____ and must accurately convey the page or content that follows on its own.

Uniform labels: All images like icons, frames and fields should have descriptive __ __. Identical elements should have identical labels and tags

Clean code: Make sure the website is free of code errors to allow easier navigation by screen readers. Eliminate ___ ____ and HTML errors

Zoom text: The user must be able to increase the text by up to ___ without negatively affecting the readability of a website

Distinctive links: Text links inside a body of text and not inside header or footer navigation menus must use at least two of the following markups: ___, bold, italics and color to differentiate the links from normal text

Closed captioning: All videos with understandable sounds/voices should have synced ___ _____

Descriptive alt text: All important images on a website must have descriptive alt text. This also includes charts and infographics that need to have a ____ ____ to connect the alt text with the information in the image

Table data: A large table data must be either accompanied by a body of text that ___ the content of the table or it should be broken down into smaller tables