Web accessibility conformance evaluation.
Conformance evaluation determines how well your content meets specific accessibility standards,
such as the "W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines", or "WCAG" for short.
Often you'll want to do conformance evaluation:
as a final check before releasing a product;
in order to provide information to potential purchasers of your product;
to regularly monitor the accessibility of your website;
before procuring a product;
and when getting started with implementing accessibility,
to get a list of accessibility issues that you need to address.
To do effective conformance evaluation, you need expertise in:
accessibility standards;
accessible web design and development;
assistive technologies;
and in how people with disabilities use the Web.
You'll probably also want to use evaluation tools to be more efficient.
"WCAG-EM", the "Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology",
provides a structure for your evaluation process.
It describes a process to:
define the scope of your evaluation;
explore your website assets;
select a representative sample of web pages from your website;
evaluate the selected sample;
and report your evaluation findings.
WCAG-EM also recommends involving real users with disabilities during evaluation,
to help you address the real-life experience of your website users.
The open source WCAG-EM Report Tool helps you follow the methodology,
record the outcomes, and download a report of your evaluation.
Web accessibility: essential for some, useful for all.
For information on conformance evaluation visit w3.org/WAI/evaluation