Dining+Services

=Dining @ Maryland= [|dining.umd.edu] Steven Banaszak

For the most part, the Dining @ Maryland homepage follows

Section 1: The only non-text content on the homepage is a slide show showing some of the food you can get at various locations around campus (except for one picture which Sister Maureen receiving an award. There is no title for the slideshow but captions describe each picture. The only problem with the slide show is that is does not have a text alternative for its buttons. One may think that hovering over a button will give you a title but that does not apply here. The homepage either does not apply to or passes the rest of section 1.

Section 2: The only thing that cannot be done by use of the keyboard is the slideshow. It has a few controls (pause, skip, etc.) that there is no way to access. All links on the page can be reached with Tab and accessed with enter.

Section 3: I see no way to change the language of the homepage. This is a large part of making the page readable by all audiences and is a major flaw. However the language used is not complicated so a minor understanding of English will suffice. There are two possible errors that can occur on the webpage. The first is a search failure. The website tells you that it could not find any page containing your query which is sufficient. The next is a log-in failure in which the page tells you that either the username or password is incorrect which tell you exactly how to avoid the error. It also offers you ways to recover your username or password. Unfortunately there is no help button. If there is such a function then it is not easily located.

Section 4: I see no problems with the website when it comes to section 4. The only slight problem is that it takes a while to load on mobile platforms. It's possible that the slideshow can not be run on something that doesn't use flash but I do not have any device, mobile or otherwise, which cannot run flash so I'm not sure.

The Dining @ Maryland homepage appears to only violates WCAG 2.0 three times so it must be considered partially implemented. The only violation that may take a large amount of time is providing the page in another language. It should be relatively simple to make it complete.