Accessibility Audit Checklist
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Ordered by who gets locked out, not by checklist number.
Tags: Design, Technical, Research
Prompt template
# Accessibility audit **What I'm auditing** - The page, screen or component: [textarea: What it is and what it does] - Structure: [textarea: Headings, landmarks, reading order] - Controls: [textarea: Buttons, links, form fields, custom widgets] - Media: [textarea: Images, video, audio, icons] **Visual** - Colour pairs in use: [textarea: Foreground and background, with hex codes if you have them] - Text sizes and whether it reflows: [textarea: What happens at 200% zoom] **Interaction** - Behaviours: [multi: Hover only, Drag and drop, Timed content, Auto-playing motion, Modals, Infinite scroll, Custom keyboard shortcuts] **Context** - Platform: [dropdown: Web, iOS, Android, Desktop app, Email] - Target: [dropdown: WCAG A, WCAG AA, WCAG AAA, Not sure yet] - Third-party components in the mix: [textarea: Anything you did not build] Go through the issues in order of user impact, not in specification order. Keyboard access and focus visibility first, then semantic structure and labels, then contrast, then motion. For each problem tell me who it locks out and how, then the fix. Separately, list what an automated tool would miss here, particularly focus order and whether the alt text says anything useful. Finish with what I need to test by hand and how to do it if I have never used a screen reader.