Easy Checks changelog
This page lists changes to Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility since the draft was posted in June 2013.
Major revision planned for late 2023.
Changes
9 August 2023
- Under "Learn more about multimedia alternatives", replaced links with more recent resource: Making Audio and Video Media Accessible
31 January 2023
- Under under Keyboard access and visual focus, under What to do, after bullet "In Mac browsers...", added "(In Windows browsers, you don't need to do this step.)" to address issue that came from the WAI course. diff
April-May 2020
- Added video introduction
14 & 22 December 2017
- Update instructions under Resize text checks
- Tweaked spacing around figures
8 & 9 August 2017
- In Contrast section:
- Added "There should also be sufficient contrast between text and its background by default, so that many people can read it without changing the colors."
- Changed "Web pages should also have a minimum contrast by default: a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 for normal-size text." to "The contrast between all text and its background is at least 4.5:1 for normal-size text."
- Changed example under https://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary#ctrlcmd
16 December 2016
- Significant update: added new check on Moving, Flashing, or Blinking Content
- Changed "FF Toolbar" to "WebDev Toolbar" and added: "Web Developer Toolbar for Chrome, Opera, and Firefox..." along with relevant links to the browsers and extensions.
- Diff shows several minor edits.
11-20 December 2013
- Intro - added "Additional evaluation guidance is available from: ..." & 3 links
- screen reader explanation - clarified and simplified
- "To check page title with different browsers" section - updated image, changed order
- Image text alternatives ("alt text") section - minor tweaks to Tips and the first sentence under "Alt text checks"
- Keyboard access and visual focus - edited second paragraph and moved illustration from lower down up to here
- Contrast - added section "Checking contrast with FF"
- Forms, Labels, and Errors - added "To check labels if you're comfortable looking at the HTML markup" section. changed headin from just "Forms". added under check with BAD, "Also, the page title includes "Submission Failed".".
- Basic Structure Check - changed section title from Plain Content View
- and a few other minor tweaks, including "EDIT"s from 20 Dec minutes
2014 and 2015
Mostly minor copy edits.
4 November 2013
- Resize Text section - significant edits
- Page Title section - moved content around
- Keyboard section - minor edits
- Using these Easy checks - added first section
- Minor edits, such as: in learn more about Headings, deleted links to techniques
17 September 2013
- Corrected "(for example, for left-to-right languages: top to bottom, left to right)"
2 July 2013
- Added Forms section
- Added Plain Content View section
1 July 2013
- Added markup to Background
- Added "optional" to heading: Tools: FF Toolbar and IE WAT (optional)
- Added list of things not covered in Encourage thorough accessibility evaluation section
- Added placeholder for new section: Plain Content View
June 2013
minor edits, most of which are listed in this Easy Checks Comments wiki page
Document History
- "Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility" was first published as a draft in June 2013.
- It replaced "Preliminary Review of Web Sites for Accessibility" that was first published in September 2005.
- It was originally one section of "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" that was first published in October 2001.