With the continued awareness of the need to meet the requirements of website accessibility (WAI) we believe we now lead the world on providing automated testing. From next Monday, 26th July we will be implementing a further range of tests looking at the requirements for meeting AA compliance (Priority 2’s – the October target for all UK Government websites).

labelforms
12.4 - Associate labels explicitly with their controls

logicalevents
9.3 - For scripts, specify logical event handlers rather than device-dependent event handlers

noblinking
7.2 - Avoid causing content to blink

nodeprecated
11.2 - Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies

nopopups
10.1 - Do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear

norefresh
7.4 - Do not create periodically auto-refreshing pages

useheadings
3.5 - Use header elements to convey document structure and use them according to specification

usestyle
3.3 - Use style sheets to control layout and presentation

validate
3.2 - Create documents that validate to published formal grammars