Readability - action findings of accessibility report

[JasleenKJolly]

The text is clear and readable. When I checked with my app which simulates colour vision defects the hyperlinks don't stand out. I wonder whether it would be possible to make them more obvious, perhaps with a colour background or underline and a key to show this means hyperlink?

The EDIs website has a great function where the background birghtness can be altered by the individual so set contrast and glare levels at a comfortable point. I am not sure how this was implemented but if at the hackday something like this could be implemented I think that would be wonderful.

How compatible is github with screen readers used by people with visual impairment and processing difficulties? I could not find any information on this.

Thanks to you and the team on all your wonderful work on this.

[cassgvp]

Hi @JasleenKJolly , many thanks for this really valuable feedback.

I believe the colours of hyperlinks was also picked up in the main WIN pages, and I've used the same colour scheme here. Would be a relatively easy one for us to fix quickly with an adjustment to the hex code for the hyperlink colour in the colour scheme style file. Would you be able to share a link to the app you used to identify this problem?

Andrew Galloway will be running these pages through ha full accessibility audit. All heading are formatted with a heading type, and where I've asked around on twitter, GitHub Pages reads well. The main issue I am anticipating for screen readers in in image alt-text, where I've been very thin in the descriptions.

I think both of the points you've highlighted would be good first issues, so I'm going to turn them into a check list below:

• [ ] Change the colour of hyperlinks (?darken) to improve readability.
• [ ] Update the image alternative text to be more descriptive.

[JasleenKJolly]

Fabulous thanks. I use 2 methods to check for colour vision abnormalities. One is an app on my phone called CVSimulator. It allows you use the camera and view any scene with a simulated filter representing the 3 most common forms of inherited colour vision loss.

There is also an add-on for firefox that allows you to do something similar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/let-s-get-color-blind/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link

[cassgvp]

Andrew has now kindly complete the full accessibility audit. The report is available here. We now need to make a plan for actioning the problem areas identified. This could perhaps be rolled into actioning the accessibility changes for the rest of the WIN pages?