The table below outlines some of the issues that we are currently working on as part of our accessibility roadmap.
| Issue | resolution |
|---|---|
| Bin Calendar PDFs are not accessible | While we cannot fix the calendars at the moment, we have adapted our bin lookup feature to show all remaining collection dates for the Calendar year. This provides the same information in an alternative and accessible way. We will continue to investigate ways of generating accessible PDF calendars and other alternative views of this information. |
| Inaccessible PDFs | we have a list of inaccessible PDFs from out Accessibility checking service (Siteimprove) and we are working through these documents fixing issues and/or replacing the PDF with HTML web pages. |
| Some page landmarks do not have a unique role or role/label/title | We are adapting tour site theme to accommodate these requirements and remove out of date ARIA attributes |
| Some elements do not have sufficient colour contrast e.g. 'Coronavirus Menu' | We are adding styles to our theme to address this, this will be fixed in September 2020 |
| Theme/skin for our third party system Modern.gov is not fully accessible. | We are working with the supplier of this application to re-theme it by End Sept 2020 |
| The Theme/skin for some of our online forms is not fully accessible | We are fixing issues within the third party system that provides some of our online forms and will aim to complete this work by Sept 2020. |
It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content. | This is a manual review and testing process. We have fixed the majority of occasions where this happens but are aware that more may exist. We will fix these issues as they are identifed. |
It’s not always possible for users to change text size without some of the content overlapping. | We are reworking elelements of our form module and currently testing new functionality to meet this requirement. We aim to have this resolved by October 2020 |
Some form fields are not labelled correctly. | We are reworking elelements of our form module and currently testing new functionality to meet this requirement. We aim to have this resolved by October 2020 |
Some form elements do not have correct ARIA attributes. | Correct Aria Attributes are being added to out site 'theme'. this is currently in testing. we anticipate pushing the changes live by end Sept 2020 |
Some of our Pages have "regions" without an accessible name. | We are reworking elelements of our form module and currently testing new functionality to meet this requirement. We aim to have this resolved by October 2020 |
Resolved issues
The following issues have been flagged to us by siteimprove and subsequently resolved:
| Resolved issue | Conformance | Occurrences | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page has no title | A | 2213 | 2213 |
| Role without required context | A | 146058 | 2213 |
| Button without a text alternative | A | 2238 | 2213 |
| Required ARIA attribute is missing | A | 434210 | 2213 |
| Autocomplete does not work as intended | AA | 2214 | 2213 |
| Link without a text alternative | A | 153292 | 2213 |
| Browser zoom is restricted | AA | 2213 | 2213 |
| Image without a text alternative | A | 27996 | 2213 |
| Invalid role | A | 22027 | 2213 |
| Visible label and accessible name do not match | A | 130412 | 2213 |
| Page language has not been declared | A | 2213 | 2213 |
| Page language not recognized | A | 2213 | 2213 |
| Context-giving role has no dependents | A | 27917 | 2213 |
| Color contrast is not sufficient | AA | 112727 | 2213 |
| Form field is not labeled | A | 4441 | 2213 |
| Hidden element has focusable content | A | 2260 | 2213 |
| Element IDs are not unique | A | 90930 | 2213 |
| Empty headings | A | 26071 | 2213 |
| Inline frame without a text alternative | A | 48 | 34 |
| Multiple inline frames with the same text alternative | A | 48 | 34 |
| Unknown language tag in page body | AA | 105 | 17 |
| Image button without a text alternative | A | 17 | 17 |