Website accessibility assessment 2024
Our website was assessed for accessibility by the Shaw Trust in March 2024.
The website was evaluated against the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 up to conformance level AA. Automated evaluation tools and manual testing by an experienced in-house pan-disabled testing team were utilised to complete a comprehensive accessibility audit.
Issues found in the assessment
The assessment found a number of A and AA issues.
A issues:
- STAS-F01: Non-Functioning ‘Skip’ Navigation
- STAS-F02: Incorrect Heading Structure
- STAS-F03: Empty Headings
- STAS-F04: Missing Alt Text
- STAS-F05: Non-Descriptive Alt Text
- STAS-F06: Empty Button
- STAS-F07: Form Error Handling
- STAS-F08: Empty links
- STAS-F09: Non-Descriptive Link Text
- STAS-F10: Incorrect Table coding
- STAS-F11: Element Markup
- STAS-F12: Users unaware of content change
- STAS-F13: Unable to Pause Moving Content
- STAS-F14: Untitled Frames
- STAS-F15: Video and Audio missing Text Alternatives
- STAS-F16: Video missing Audio Description
- STAS-F17: Mouse Dependant Areas
- STAS-F18: Link Styling
- STAS-F19: Inaccessible Non-HTML Documents
- STAS-F20: HTML Markup Errors
AA issues:
- STAS-F21: Insufficient Colour Contrast
- STAS-F22: Obscured Text
Advisories
- STAS-A01: Links to Non-HTML Documents
Fixing the issues
The majority of the issues can be correct by updating the content within our website. Some issues may need further development of our website to correct. We aim to have all the issues fixed within 6 months of the report.
View the full report
The full report prepared by the Shaw Trust can be downloaded below: