Website accessibility review 2022 by AbilityNet

This website was tested by AbilityNet using a light-touch accessibility review that aims to highlight the most critical accessibility issues and is based on the W3C WAI Easy Checks.

AbilityNet WCAG 2.1 AA headline review

An AbilityNet consultant will perform a headline review on 5 pages. This accessibility health check has 8 checkpoints, focusing on core accessibility. They include the following.

Alternative Text
Colour
Fields and Components
Keyboard
Layout
Moving and Multimedia Content
Skip Links
Structure

The checkpoints are completed on desktop using bookmarklets, extensions, and applications. Each checkpoint is scored using a traffic light system, Each page will be rated as red, amber, or green. When each page has been checked, an accessibility score will be calculated for each page.

Warwick District Council website review

Each reviewed page is given a score, represented as a percentage:

Page	Score
Warwick District Council homepage	86%
Change of address form - contact details	83%
Council tax	100%
Leamington car parks	86%
Rubbish, waste and recycling	92%
Average score	89%

Issues found

Issues found within the review have been added to our Accessibility statement.

Issue	Details
Keyboard tabbing	The keyboard focus is not logical within the tabbed interface. After activating a tab using keyboard, the focus does not move to the activated panel.
Image alternative text	Decorative images that do not convey meaning or unique information have inappropriate/redundant text alternative. They should use an empty alt attribute
Form error message	The “Change of address” form errors are not associated with their input fields using aria-describedby and id attributes
Visually styled header	The "Incremental charges apply in these Leamington car parks" visually styled heading is not marked up as a heading
YouTube video transcripts	YouTube video does not have transcripts
Page heading structure	Parent and child headings are using the same level