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Section 508 Self-Evaluation
Web Page Accessibility Questionnaire for Component Web Contacts without Technical Assistance Material
Q1: What is the URL/URI of the web page?
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Q2: What is the best description for the purpose of the page?
- Web-based application.
- Online form for receipt of services or benefits.
- Other online form.
- Instructions for receipt of services or benefits.
- Description of activities of your component.
- Employment postings.
- Inherently graphical content (e.g. map or photograph).
- Other (describe): ___________________________________
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Q3: Is the page available on the Internet, an agency Intranet, or some combination?
- Intranet. Deployed only over internal Intranet.
- Internet. Deployed over Internet - available to those outside agency.
- Combination. Deployed over Internet, but containing some portions that
are available only on agency terminals.
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Q4: On a weekly basis, how many times (approximately) is this page accessed by users?
- On a weekly basis, this page is accessed approximately ________ times.
- We have no way to track this information.
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Q5: Does each non-text element on the page have a text equivalent via "alt"
(alternative text attribute) or does the page otherwise include a meaningful
description of the non-text element in the text accompanying the non-text
element?
- Yes.
- Yes and no. Some non-text elements have meaningful text equivalents while
others do not.
- No, none of the non-text elements have text equivalents.
- N/A. There are no non-text elements on the page.
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Q6: For any multimedia content, is text captioning provided for all audible output and
audible output provided for all important visual information?
- Yes.
- Yes and no. Text captioning is not provided for audible output, but audio
descriptions are provided for all important visual information.
- Yes and no. Audio descriptions are not provided for all important visual
information, but text captioning is provided for audible output.
- No, neither is provided.
- N/A. There is no multimedia content on the page.
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Q7: Are all audio descriptions and text captions synchronized with their associated
dynamic content?
- Yes, text captioning for audible output and audible output for visual
information is completely synchronized with changes in the dynamic
content of the page.
- Yes and no. Text captioning is not completely synchronized with audible
output as the dynamic content of the page changes or is not provided, but
the audio descriptions are synchronized to the important visual
information they describe.
- Yes and no. Audio descriptions are not synchronized to the important
visual information they describe or they are not provided, but text
captioning is synchronized with the audible output as the dynamic content
of the page changes.
- No. Both are provided but neither is synchronized.
- N/A. There is no multimedia content on this page.
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Q8: Is the page capable of being understood and navigated even if users do not have the
ability to identify specific colors or differentiate between colors?
- Yes, the page uses color appropriately.
- No, the page does not use color appropriately.
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Q9: If the page uses cascading style sheets or JavaScript style sheets, is it
viewable without style sheets or with style sheets turned off or not
supported by the browser?
- Yes.
- No.
- N/A. The page does not use cascading style sheets or JavaScript style sheets.
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Q10: If the page uses cascading style sheets or JavaScript style sheets, is it designed so
that it does not interfere with style sheets set by the browser?
- Yes, it works without interfering with style sheets set by the browser.
- No, it interferes with any style sheets that have been set by the browser.
- N/A. The page does not use cascading style sheets or JavaScript style
sheets.
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Q11: If the page includes any server-side image maps, are duplicate text links provided
for all links within the server-side image maps?
- Yes, each link in the server-side image maps is duplicated by a separate
text link.
- Yes and no. Some of the links from the server-side image maps are
duplicated in separate text links while others are not.
- No, redundant text links are not provided for any link from the server-side
image maps.
- N/A. The page does not include any server-side image maps.
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Q12: If the page includes any server-side image maps, have you established a timetable to
replace the server-side image maps with client-side image maps, except where the
regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape?
- Yes.
- No.
- N/A. The page does not include any server-side image maps.
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Q13: If the page includes one or more client-side image maps, does each map region have
a text equivalent via "alt" (alternative text attribute) or does the page otherwise
include a meaningful description of the non-text element in the text accompanying
it?
- Yes.
- Yes and no. Some of the non-text elements associated with the image
map(s) have text equivalents or a meaningful text description, while others
do not.
- No. None of the non-text elements associated with the image map(s) have
text equivalents or meaningful text descriptions.
- N/A. The page does not include any client-side image maps.
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Q14: If the page includes data in tables (either HTML tables or preformatted text tables
using the <PRE> tag), and if any of the tables has two or more rows (including
header or data cells), does each cell provide identification of row and column
headers?
- Yes, the page includes tables, some of which have two or more rows, but
each cell within the table includes identification of its row and column
headers.
- No. The page includes tables, at least one of which has two or more rows,
but some cells within the table fail to identify row and column headers.
- No, but.... The page includes tables, at least one of which has two or more
rows, and not every cell within the table identifies row and column
headers, but there is meaningful text on the page that conveys the same
information as is contained in the table.
- N/A. The page does not include any tables or includes tables of single
rows only.
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Q15: If the page uses frames, does each frame have a title that meaningfully describes it?
- Yes.
- No.
- N/A. The page does not use frames.
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Q16: Does the page include content (such as applets or content requiring plug-ins) that
may cause the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than
55 Hz?
- Yes.
- No.
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Q17: If the page uses scripts, such as JavaScript or scripts in Macromedia
Flash content, and if the scripts affect any content displayed to the
user, is there equivalent text provided by the page or the script that is
accessible to a screen reader?
- Yes. The page contains JavaScript or Macromedia Flash content that
affects the content displayed to the user, but the page or script contains
equivalent text that is accessible to a screen reader.
- No. While the page contains JavaScript or Macromedia Flash content that
affects the content displayed to the user, neither the page nor the script
contains equivalent text that is accessible to a screen reader.
- N/A. The page does not use JavaScript or Macromedia Flash content.
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Q18: If the web page uses applets, such as downloadable Java applets, does it also contain
the same information and functionality in an accessible format?
- Yes, while the page uses applets, it contains the same information and
functionality in an accessible format.
- No, although the page uses applets, it does not contain the same
information and functionality in an accessible format.
- N/A. The page does not use any applets.
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Q19: If the page uses other programmatic objects (such as Flash, Shockwave, RealAudio,
or RealVideo content), or otherwise requires the use of plug-ins or programmatic
support for the browser, does the page include a link to the plug-in or
programmatic item required for accessing the content of the page and is that plug-in
or programmatic item itself accessible to people with disabilities?
- Yes, the page uses such programmatic objects and includes a link to the
plug-ins or other items required for accessing the content of the page and
those plug-ins or programmatic items are accessible to people with
disabilities.
- Yes and no. While the page uses such programmatic objects and includes a
link to the plug-ins or other items required for accessing the content of the
page, those plug-ins or programmatic items are not accessible to people
with disabilities.
- No, while the page uses such programmatic objects, it does not include a
link to the plug-ins or other items required for accessing the content of the
page.
- N/A. The page does not use such programmatic objects.
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Q20: If the page includes links to .pdf (Adobe Acrobat's portable document format) files,
were those .pdf files created in a way that is likely to maximize their usability for
people with disabilities?
- Yes. While the page includes links to .pdf files, the files were created
either by "printing to .pdf" or by scanning something into .pdf and then
running them through an optical character recognition (OCR) process.
- No, the page includes links to .pdf files that were created by scanning files
into .pdf and were not put through an OCR process.
- N/A. The page does not include any links to .pdf files.
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Q21: If the page includes one or more electronic forms that is designed for completion
online, does each form permit users of assistive technology to access the information,
field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the
form including all directions and cues?
- Yes, the page contains one or more forms designed to be completed
online. Each such form complies with all of the accessibility requirements
that are the subject of this questionnaire and has been tested for usability
by persons using assistive technologies.
- Yes, but... The page contains one or more forms designed to be completed
online. While each such form complies with all of the accessibility
requirements that are the subject of this questionnaire, one or more of
them has not been tested for usability by persons using assistive
technologies.
- Yes, but... The page contains one or more forms designed to be completed
online. We have tested each of the forms using assistive technology, but
we are not sure that each such form complies with all of the accessibility
requirements that are the subject of this questionnaire.
- No. The page contains one or more forms designed to be completed
online, but at least one of these forms is inaccessible to people with
disabilities, at least in one respect.
- N/A. The page does not contain any forms designed to be completed
online.
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Q22: If the page contains one or more forms that is designed to be completed online but
that is inaccessible to people with disabilities in some respect, does the page include
an alternate accessible form or a link to an alternate accessible form?
- Yes. While the page contains one or more forms that is designed to be
completed online but that is inaccessible to people with disabilities in
some respect, the page includes an alternate accessible form or a link to an
alternate accessible form.
- No. The page contains one or more forms designed to be completed
online but that is inaccessible to people with disabilities in some respect
and the page does not contain an alternate accessible form or a link to an
alternate accessible form.
- N/A. The page does not include one or more forms that is designed to be
completed online or it does include such forms, but they are accessible to
people with disabilities in all respects.
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Q23: If the page includes navigational links to other web pages within the same website, is
there a link allowing users of screen readers to skip over those links?
- Yes.
- No.
- N/A. The page does not contain any navigational links to other web pages
within the same website.
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Q24: If the page requires users to respond within a fixed amount of time before the user is
"timed out," is the user alerted that he or she will be timed out and given sufficient
time to indicate that more time is required before actually being timed out?
- Yes.
- Yes and no. While the page warns users that they are about to be timed
out, it does not give them an option to extend the length of time that the
page will be kept open.
- No. The page will time out users but does not provide prior warning or the
ability to extend the length of time it will be kept open.
- N/A. The page does not "time out" users, no matter how long a page is
kept open.
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Q25: Taking into consideration your responses to the previous questions, if the reviewed
page likely contains barriers to access for people with disabilities, do you have an
alternative text-only page that contains the same information and is updated as
often as the reviewed page?
- Yes.
- Yes and no. While the page appears to contain barriers to access for
people with disabilities and we have established a text-only alternate page,
the text-only alternate page does not include the same information or is not
updated as often as the reviewed page.
- No. While the page appears to contain barriers to access for people with
disabilities, we do not have an alternate text-only page.
- N/A. The page does not appear to contain any barriers for people with
disabilities, so we do not have an alternate text-only page.
- N/A. Even though the page does not appear to contain any barriers to
access for people with disabilities, we still maintain an alternate text-only
page that contains the same information and is updated as often as the
reviewed page.
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Q26: Test this page for accessibility to persons with disabilities using assistive technology
(including a screen reader, the Lynx public-domain text-only browser, or the IBM
Home Page Reader). Describe the results of this test:
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Q27: Describe the accessibility successes and challenges you identified during your
evaluation of this page and any plans you have for addressing any problems on this
and similar pages within your website:
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Updated July 25, 2008
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