Testudo+Schedule+of+Classes

http://www.testudo.umd.edu/ScheduleOfClasses.html The Schedule of Classes page, within UMD’s Testudo website, allows students to view course listings, school calendars, and class deadlines for various semesters.

1. Perceivable The content is separated well from the background. The content of the page is broken down by semester allowing the user to choose a variety of options within each semester. A big problem with the page is that the title of each section, the name of the semester, is an image; moreover the images used for semesters do not have descriptive alt tags so someone using a screen reader what not be able to navigate this page. Content and structure are not well separated. The page uses tables to structure the layout and styles the page using HTML as well as CSS. The page does a poor job of semantically marking the content. For example, the “Schedule of Classes” text, an important page heading, does not make use of an H1 or H2 tag. This makes the presentation of the page very rigid.

2. Operable The content is displayed statically; users have enough time to read and use the content. There are no flashing items that could cause seizures. Users might have difficulty finding content, navigating, and determining where they are. Again, screen readers will have difficulty translating this page because of the lack of headings and image alt tags. You can tab through the links under each semester.

3. Understandable The language of the page cannot be programmatically determined. The content and predictable and does not change. The page requires no user input and is very simple4.

4. Robust There are 203 parsing errors according to the W3C validator. Despite the HTML errors, the web page appears properly in Firefox 5, IE 8, and the latest version of Chrome.