The seventh episode of The Accessibility Show is now out! This one was an interesting change of pace. I was asked to take a look at the site for another of Nathan’s podcasts: The No Script Show, the brain child of David Waumsley.

The premise for the No Script Show is fundamentally interesting to me. The show is about stripping away the baggage of page and site builders and working on the fundamentals of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

Accessibility is also, at its root, very much about the same fundamentals.

The first thing I did after I was asked to do this site was run some automated tests. This is pretty much always what I do to start any assessment. Automated testing gives you a smoke test for how you’re going to want to approach a project. A site that tests with zero automated failures is a very different project than one with 800.

This site raised no errors on the home page using WebAIM’s WAVE, and I decided that would be the foundation I’d build on for this show. Automated testing will only uncover a fraction of potential problems. After that, you need to start looking more deeply.

As it happens, this site is really in pretty good shape, which gave a great opportunity for going into fine details. There’s always room to make things better!

Give the show a watch and I hope you enjoy the experience!