Exercise Use guidelines to evaluate other homepages
Checklist for Lab
Choose a homepage (other than your own) to use for this exercise. You might want to try evaluating a competitor's homepage, a site with similar business goals, or a homepage from a popular website that interests you.
Make a local copy of the Web Page that you plan on evaluating for accessibility. You will need to view the code to complete this evaluation.
Evaluate whether or not the homepage follows the accessiblity guidelines (Use W3 accessibility checklist). For each Checkpoint, give the site 3/2/1 points if it follows the guideline for priority 1/2/3, or half the points if it only partially follows the guideline, zero for no implementation, and NA for does not apply. The points are based on priority where priority 1 has higher value then priority 2 etc.
Add up all of the points.
Divide the total points by 117 (the total number of accesibility points weighted for priority). This will give you the percentage of the guidelines that the homepage follows.
Tips
Although you should use your local copy of the homepage for the exercise, you'll probably need to have the live site available, in order to check some links or functionality.
Limit your scoring to the homepage, even if you need to go to other pages in the design in order to evaluate it. Groups can evaluate the sites together, but we recommend that each member do the exercise independently, and then get together to compare and discuss the scores and rationale as a group activity.
