Evaluate Accessibility of Your Website

We recommend using the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE) to evaluate your website's code for accessibility. Follow the steps below to use WAVE:

1. Go to WAVE at http://wave.webaim.org
2. Type or paste the URL of you site into the box provided.
   
3. Click the arrow button or tap the Enter key.
4. An overview of your site's accessibility is presented in the following categories:
   • Errors
   • Alerts
   • Features
   • Structural Elements
   • HTML5 and ARIA
   • Contrast Errors
   
   
5. Click the Flag icon to get details of items found in each category.
6. Click on each item icon to see where it is in your site. For more information, click the blue information icon.
7. Click on the Notepad icon to see your heading outline
8. Click the No Styles button to check your site's readability. After you click the No Styles button, read the text in the display to see what your site would sound like to a screen reader.
9. Click the Contrast button to see what colors you need to darken or lighten to pass accessibility standards.
10. Fix all errors, alerts, heading outline issues, and contrast errors on your site.

Please contact the Office of Accessibility if you need asssistance.