papahanaumokuakea.gov

What we found

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

• 3

  3 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.

  Critical barrierBlocks a task

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 242

  242 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
• 138

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

  • Screen readers
• 138

  138 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
• 75

  Text in 75 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
• 39

  39 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
• 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
• 6

  6 parts of the page are hidden from screen readers but can still be reached with the Tab key, so a blind visitor lands on things their screen reader won’t describe.

  • Screen readers
  • Keyboard users
• 6

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

  • Screen readers
• 4

  4 pages don’t say what language they are in, so screen readers may read them aloud with the wrong pronunciation.

  • Screen readers
• 2

  2 fields have no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what to type into them.

  • Screen readers
  • Voice control
• 2

  2 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
• 1

  1 part of the page carries screen-reader details that don’t apply to it, so screen readers may describe it wrongly.

  • Screen readers
• 1

  1 menu, list or set of tabs is built incompletely, so screen readers may announce it without its items or not let a blind visitor move through them.

  • Screen readers
• 1

  1 part of the page carries a broken detail for screen readers, such as a pointer to something that isn’t there, so screen readers may describe it wrongly.

  • Screen readers
• 1

  1 link in running text stands out only by its color, so people with color blindness or low vision may not see that it is a link.

  • Color blindness
  • Low vision
• 1

  1 page stops visitors zooming in on a phone, so people with low vision can’t enlarge the text to read it.

  • Low vision

The keyboard test

We pressed Tab 98 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: 6 controls show no sign of focus. Keyboard users may not be able to tell where they are.

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