Accessibility Evaluation Report
1. Summary
This report shows the conformance of the Optus web site with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. According to W3C’s Conformance Evaluation, the Optus web site meets WCAG 2.0, Conformance Level A and Level AA. The evaluation details will show in the following sections and resources are provided in Section 7. This report is written to help understand whether the web site is accessible or not and how to fix the accessibility issues, and feedback on this report is welcome.
2. Background about accessibility and evaluation
Web accessibility is good for the development of technology nowadays. Barrier free webpage or web content accessibility encourage web designers to focus on users
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So it is recommended that modify the header levels so only an h3 or any header less than h3 follows h2.
Figure 6 - h2 presented on the web page and its code
5. Guideline 3.1 - Readable
The language of the Optus home page is identified using the LANG attribute for HTML tag and for change in human language (See Figure 7). However, document language is not identified and document has invalid language code in the payment page. For HTML documents, ‘lang’ attribute should be set and it would be necessary to add a valid 2 letter or 3 letter language codes that make sure the Web site is readable.
Figure 7 - The code determines the default human language of Web page
6. Guideline 4.1 – Compatible
Markup languages are appropriately used, which means that all elements have start and end tags (See Figure 8).
Proper markup improves the accessibility of the Web site. Name, role and value are programmatically coded, such as using button label and frame title. For example, the code below has name “button yellow” (See Figure 9), which informs users what the item is and let them know the button is available to click.
Figure 8 - list code