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 for Community Living(CACL)

Site checked on:Saturday, October 04

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:

What can we say, as soon as we saw the validation stickers plasterd all over the site we just had to check and they didn't validate in either language.

We found the navigation and usability inconsistent depending on how you made your way into the site, French or English versions. Here is some of what we found.

• Invalid code
• Links that used Javascript that disappeared wehn Javascript was turned off
• No noscript element for Javascript
• Broken links
• Inconsistent navigation
• No way to customize the pages
• Home page had no DTD and the language wasn't defined
• French version
  • No DTD
  • No skip links or headings
  • Language not defined

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