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What we found

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

• 1

  1 drop-down list has no label, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what it is for.

  Critical barrierBlocks a task

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 786

  Text in 786 places is too faint against its background, so people with low vision, or anyone reading a phone in sunlight, may struggle to read it.

  • Low vision
  • Color blindness
• 32

  32 parts of the page carry screen-reader details that don’t apply to them, so screen readers may describe them wrongly.

  • Screen readers
• 28

  28 controls sit inside others, such as buttons inside links, so screen readers may skip some of them and keyboard users may not reach them.

  • Screen readers
  • Keyboard users
• 14

  14 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
• 14

  14 lists are built incorrectly, so screen readers may not announce them as lists or say how many items they have.

  • Screen readers
• 8

  8 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
• 5

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

  • Screen readers
• 4

  4 embedded sections, such as maps, videos or forms from other sites, have no title, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what they are.

  • Screen readers
• 4

  4 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
• 3

  3 links have no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says just “link”, with no clue to where they go.

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 3

  3 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 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
• 1

  1 field has no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what to type into it.

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control

The keyboard test

We pressed Tab 38 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.

• Problem: 5 controls show no sign of focus. Keyboard users may not be able to tell where they are.

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