Guide & Page Names
- Descriptions added to guide and all pages
Friendly URLs and descriptions
- Friendly URLs created for the guide and all the pages within the guide
Text Formatting & Headings
- Heading levels are used in the body of the text, and in logical order
- To make text larger, use headings rather than increasing the font size.
- Use clear fonts and don't mix different font types. It is recommended that you use the LibGuides default font, but if you change fonts, select a font that is easy to read online.
- Use emphasis - bolding, italicizing, and changing the color of text - sparingly.
- Don't use all caps for emphasis. This can cause difficulty for users of screen readers.
- Don't use underlines for emphasis. Users will think an underline is a hyperlink.
- Don't rely on changing text color to emphasize text. Color won't be useful for all users, and is usually unavailable to screen reader users.
- If you change your font color, make sure there is a strong contrast between your font and the background.
- Non-English language text has been added to HTML tags
Tables
- Tables are only used for data and formatted appropriately
- Avoid using tables for layout purposes whenever possible.
- Use tables mainly to display data that fits well into rows and columns.
- Tables that are used to organize tabular data should have appropriate table headers (the <th> element).
- Add table caption and summary to provide more information about the table for screen reader to pick it up.
- Avoid spanned rows as screen readers may not properly parse them.
Links
- Contexual links - link text is informative and tells the user where they'll be taken
- No broken links - links have been reviewed and go to the correct destination
Images & Alternative Text
- Images have appropriately descriptive alt-text (ALT tags)
- Infograhics have appropriate alt-text and longer text descriptions
- Don't use an image is the subject of the image is just text.
- Make sure your linked text makes sense out of context. Avoid using words or phases like "click here," "more," or "click for details" in front of links.
Embedded Media
- Captions and/or transcripts are available for audio or video in your guide
Colors
- The default colors for text and background are the best options. It is recommended that you leave these options as is to mitigate contrast issues.
- Don't rely on changing text color to emphasize text. Color won't be useful for all users, and is usually unavailable to screen reader users.
- If you change your font color, make sure there is a strong contrast between your font and the background
Gallery boxes
- Only use these for images.