Review of Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers
Reviewed 01 Apr 2010
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Average score 88%
Summary
It is easily to use and easily to understand.
Detailed Results
| # | Test | Outcome | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Login, Signup and Other Forms Accessible | 100% | You can easily use your keyboard to have access to the forms and there is good labelling of what forms you are using. Moreover a screen reader can read the purpose of all forms and the most fascinating there is an audio assistance that can be used to read |
| 2 | Image ALT Attributes | 67% | Even though there is almost in every image alternative text there are some images which are lack of it and for this reason the screen reader can not give any information for that images. eg the advertisements. |
| 3 | Link Target Definitions | 100% | I searched all the website for a non suitable or misaddressing definition of a link but all the target definitions where excelent. No duplications found. |
| 4 | Frame Titles and Layout | 33% | Even though on this site are using only some simple frames, two screen readers that I have used weren\\\'t able to read the site. Probably this simple frames confuse the screen reader. |
| 5 | Removal of Stylesheet | 100% | I have check the site using the JISC toolbar, and the site approved to be still fully accessible and understandable during in all kind of changes in stylesheet. |
| 6 | Audio/Video Features | 100% | YahooAvswers by default do not support any Audio/Video Features. |
| 7 | Video/animations - audio descriptions | 100% | As the previous YahoowAnswers by default do not support any Video/animations. |
| 8 | Appropriate use of Tables | 100% | I did not spot the use of tables in the YahooAnswers Site. |
| 9 | Tab Orderings Correct and Logical | 100% | The tab browsing works absolutely logical. It moves from top to down, and from left to right. The selection is moved throw all text buttons, buttons, links and all images that you can select. |
| 10 | Page Functionality with Keyboard | 67% | I have used the site with the use of IE,Mozila Firefox and Google Chrome, I can say that all functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface in all browsers. I just had some little problems with Google Chrome which missed some images |
| 11 | Accessibility of Text Editors | 67% | You can access to the text editors and provide changes but not for a specific Text Editor. The changes that you are able to do with the use of keyboards are general by accessing the specific toolbar. |
| 12 | Appropriate Feedback with Forms | 100% | The site has an excellent feedback system, with appropriate forms and textual explanations. |
| 13 | Contrast and Colour Check | 100% | The site has a light white background and use more bright green colour at the foreground that help the user easily to spot what he want. |
| 14 | Page Integrity when Zooming | 100% | With the use of JISC toolbar, i was able to zoom the site with no significant errors. |
| 15 | Text size, style, blinking elements and Readability | 100% | The font size is regular following a reasonable layout, there are no blinking expect from some advertisement which have a really rear time of blinking when the advertise change. |