Description of checks and how they work with areas

What does this do?

A check is one specific qualifier on an aspect of an accessibility standard for HTML content. For instance, we know that having a suitable “alt” description for images is part of the accessibility standards.

Hence, we have several checks which test different aspects of this one example requirement, including but not limited to:

  • “Image Alt (Alternative) Text should not be missing for image elements” - this checks that the alt is not empty.
  • “Image Alt (Alternative) Text should not be more than the maximum allowed (125) characters” - this checks that the alt string is not too long.
  • “Image Alt (Alternative) Text should not be the image filename” - this checks that the alt is NOT the filename.

All these checks are performed on each identifiable piece of HTML content, which have been identified as relevant areas to process.

List of checks by group - and status

Checks are grouped into six HTML content types:
  • Image
  • Layout
  • Link
  • Media
  • Table
  • Text

What does this do?

A comprehensive list of both enabled and potential checks can be found by contacting Brickfield Education Labs directly through clicking "Submit a request" at the top right of the page.

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