Site Evaluation Results

The site evaluation found on this page is based on the criteria at Site Check. Only a few random pages for each site were checked since it is Accessibility News's experience that accessibility errors are consistent throughout a website and that some pages are much worse than others, especially when you take into account Flash, other Multimedia and forms.

"Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also make your Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including older users. It will also enable people to access Web content using many different devices - including a wide variety of assistive technologies.

Note: Accessibility News does not believe in just passing the Minimum standards (Priority 1), or even Priority 1 and 2 as it will still be an accessibility barrier to some groups and we don't believe that any one group is more deserving than another. Fully Accessible should be the benchmark that all web developers should strive for.

It should also be noted that Accessibility News does not rely solely on automated online checking tools, our extensive knowledge of W3C Guidelines and todays Best Practices are also taken into account for each Site Check.

Canadian Association Of Independent Living Centres(CAILC)

Site checked on:Friday, December 21

Accessibility Rating

Not Accessible

This site does not meet the minimum requirements (Priority 1) for web accessibility and will pose a significant barrier to a large number of Persons With Disabilities (PWD's).

Accessibility News Comments:

On their "Accessibility statement" page they write:
All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. As with the Bobby guidelines, many of the WCAG guidelines are vague and/or subjective and cannot be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
Taken from http://www.cailc.ca/article/accessibility-127.asp.

Accessibility News disagrees with their findings and notes the errors below that are hardly subjective or difficult to understand. There were more but we feel this should suffice

It should also be noted that "Bobby" are not a set of guidelines as they state.

• Use of JavaScript for the style switcher(A)
• Improper nesting of headings(AA)
• Fixed font sizes(AA)
• No skip links(AAA)
• The code is valid but comes with 44 warnings(AA)
• Does not identify changes in natural language(A)
• Some functions require the use of a mouse(AA)
• Create pop up windows without warning.

We also found this site extremely difficult to navigate, especially finding the main content of each page.

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