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What we found

What is wrong and who it affects, most serious first.

• 440

  440 buttons or links are so small, or so close to others, that people with shaky hands may tap the wrong thing.

  Not in the score

  • Limited hand movement
• 62

  62 links in running text stand out only by their color, so people with color blindness or low vision may not see that they are links.

  • Color blindness
  • Low vision
• 35

  35 items that belong in menus, lists or sets of tabs sit outside them, so screen readers may not announce them as part of their group.

  • Screen readers
• 28

  28 form fields have no label, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what to enter, and voice-control users can’t name them.

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 15

  15 list items sit outside a list, so screen readers may not announce them as part of one.

  • Screen readers
• 10

  10 parts of the page carry broken details for screen readers, such as pointers to things that aren’t there, so screen readers may describe them wrongly.

  • Screen readers
• 4

  4 images have no description, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says only “image” or reads out file names.

  • Screen readers
• 4

  4 pages have to be scrolled sideways on a narrow phone screen, so people who enlarge text must scroll back and forth to read each line.

  • Low vision
• 2

  2 controls show no sign when a keyboard user moves to them, so they can’t tell where they are on the page.

  Not in the score

  • Keyboard users
  • Low vision
• 2

  2 menus, lists or sets of tabs are built incompletely, so screen readers may announce them without their items or not let a blind visitor move through them.

  • Screen readers
• 1

  1 list is built incorrectly, so screen readers may not announce it as a list or say how many items it has.

  • Screen readers
• 1

  1 link has no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says just “link”, with no clue to where it goes.

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 1

  1 list of terms and meanings is built incorrectly, so screen readers may read it as a jumble instead of pairs.

  • Screen readers

The keyboard test

We pressed Tab 85 times through the homepage, as someone who can’t use a mouse would. What it found is shown here and is not yet counted in the score.

• Passed: “Skip to content” works. Keyboard users can jump past the menu.
• Problem: 2 controls show no sign of focus. Keyboard users may not be able to tell where they are.

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