Review of Amazon

Amazon Reviewed 03 Apr 2010 · Average score 84%

Summary

Amazon have a specific accessibility pages on their American site but the UK site offers users the <a href ="http://www.amazon.co.uk/mobile/">mobile view</a>. This may be more accessible although the general site could be navigated with a keyboard although tabbing would take time. Zoom, linearisation and colour changes worked well.

Detailed Results

#	Test	Outcome	Notes
1	Login, Signup and Other Forms Accessible	100%	All the options and links were accessible. Login and signup was easy and accessible. Keyboard access was really good and was much better and fast than the Mouse interface. Wave accessibility tool evaluated negligible error and all forms accessible.
2	Image ALT Attributes	67%	At almost all the places alternative text was present and was acceptable and understandable. However, it should be noted that in some places very long alt tags were used to take the place of advertisements with graphic text.
3	Link Target Definitions	100%	Nearly all the links were clearly defined and were completely logical and appropriate although there were examples where just 'more' was used or there were repetitions such as "View or edit your browsing history". Firefox accessibility extension evaluated
4	Frame Titles and Layout	33%	There were no titles to the frames but this did not appear to affect screen reader use or text browsing.
5	Removal of Stylesheet	67%	Removing the styles results in a text only look of the webpage, however all the content of the page is navigable and accessible although the order is very different.
6	Audio/Video Features	67%	Those who add products to Amazon can provide a full text transcript for any product on the website and members can post reviews about seller and products.
7	Video/animations - audio descriptions	67%	There is the chance to add text transcripts for all items uploaded. Audio descriptions have to be made at the time the videos are developed.
8	Appropriate use of Tables	100%	PAGE LAYOUT WAS GOOD AND APPROPRIATE USE OF TABLES WAS DONE AND HENCE EVERY BIT OF IT WAS ACCESSIBLE AND NAVIGABLE.
9	Tab Orderings Correct and Logical	100%	TAB ORDERING WAS GOOD AND EASY AND WAS ALLOWING THE USER TO BROWSE THROUGH THE WHOLE WEBSITE WITH EASE .
10	Page Functionality with Keyboard	67%	The web page was fully navigable and accessible on all the major browsers like Internet explorer, mozilla firefox, google chrome, etc. and tab ordering was good and ease. text editor for posting the review were also accessible.
11	Accessibility of Text Editors	100%	TEXT EDITOR WAS FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND WAS GOOD RICH TEXT EDITOR WAS FULLY ACCESSIBLE WITH THE KEYBOARD.
12	Appropriate Feedback with Forms	100%	WELL TIME LIMIT WAS OKAY ENOUGH FOR A USER TO PUT IN ANY ACTION. TIME OUT WAS NOT AN ISSUE , EVEN DURING MAKING THE TRANSACTION FOR THE ONLINE WEB PAYMENT TO BUY A PRODUCT IT ALLOWS USER TO TAKE THEIR TIME AND THAN INPUT THEIR VALUES WITH EASE.
13	Contrast and Colour Check	100%	SITE CONTRAST WAS ACCEPTABLE AND WAS EASY TO READ.
14	Page Integrity when Zooming	100%	LAYOUT OF THE PAGE WAS UNAFFECTED EVEN AFTER ZOOMING IT 10 TIMES TO THE NORMAL SIZE. AND EVERYTHING WAS READABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE.
15	Text size, style, blinking elements and Readability	100%	THE TEXT AND STYLES WERE ABSOLUTELY READABLE AT ALL POINT OF TIME. AND NOTHING WAS THAT FLASHY OR BLINKING WHICH COLD EFFECT THE READABILITY OF THE WEB PAGE CONTENT.