508 compliance testing checklist for mobile apps

Technical requirements for 508 compliance

Your system should have a conformant technical implementation. To put it more simply, the core of your mobile application should satisfy some specific requirements.

Basic technical requirements may be as follows:

• Avoid using server-side image maps
• Avoid event handlers, triggering focus changes
• Make sure that a user has access to simulated controls via keyboard
• Make sure that interactive elements on the page have logical tab order
• Ensure that the user can close simulated dialogs with the help of keyboard
• Forced focus changes that are unknown to a user should be avoided
• Make sure that a user can open menus from the keyboard
• Don’t provide keyboard focus to inactive elements
• Make sure that a user can get access to the calendar components via keyboard
• Ensure that a customer can get access to the tree and outline node components with the help of keyboard
• Make sure that a customer can use a keyboard in order to navigate through embedded content