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Web Accessibility

This checklist was provided to authors to show what the PST would be focusing on in terms of web accessibility in the review of their work.

Text Elements

  • Proper headings for text
  • Descriptive text for hyperlinks
  • Good contrast in foregrounds (text) against backgrounds
  • No images of text (scanned book pages)

Images

  • Alternative (alt) text for relevant images
  • Non-content images have the appropriate alt text identification

Tables

  • Limit table use for layout purposes
  • Specify the heading for row headers
  • Check reading order for table within another table
  • No blank cells for formatting.
  • Check reading order

Audio

  • Text transcript

Video

  • Closed Caption for all videos
  • Optional audio transcript

License

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