Closed strelichl closed 1 month ago
@strelichl @coforma-terry (cc: @SarahKay8 Should Evan take a look at any of the PDFs, when he gets access?
@sara-amanda - Yep - After a delay, we're looking at 1/17 for Evan getting his PIV card.
The VA Forms went through a thorough audit to understand the accessibility gaps present within the user journeys and how a screen reader and keyboard only users would experience the forms. This audit produced critical issues that should be addressed by the owners of these forms to ensure assistive technology (AT) users will be able to fill in these forms accurately and efficiently for submission. Each form has its own ticket under A11y Tasks that highlights how it was tested and what was tested, with sub tickets for each remediation need. Since these forms are veteran facing and widely used, remediating these forms is crucial to the veteran user experience.
A high-level understanding of the critical issues found in these forms are listed below:
Here are some recommended solutions to bring these forms up to compliance and to create a better user experience:
The methodology used to test these PDF forms was a combination of the Adobe Acrobat accessibility checker and manual testing. Manual testing included screen reader testing (VoiceOver) and keyboard-only testing. We also tested for form field functionality. Due to the fields being protected from editing, we were unable to test using CommonLook PDF or any other external checker.
cc: @sara-amanda | @coforma-terry | @SarahKay8
@tbaker1026 @megansiddle @jeana-adhoc @artsymartha68 - A request was received for CAIA A11Ys to conduct accessibility testing on 7 PDFs on the Supporting Forms Page. Those audits are now complete and have remediation recommendations. We weren't sure who the primary contact for these remediation tickets would be, so we are sharing with the three of you, via this ticket, if you can help point us in the right direction.
cc: @EvanAtCoforma @SarahKay8 @strelichl @coforma-terry
The following 7 forms were audited.
[!NOTE]
Summary: Within each of the following seven audit tickets, there will be a section of the audit ticket labeled:PDF Remediation Needed
- within this section of the PDF audit ticket, if there is an issue needing remediation, it will link to anissue ticket
for your team.
Review these tickets for issues needing remediation.
Assigning this Epic and child audit tickets to @artsymartha68 per Zoom call on 5/15/2024. The audits are done (child tickets), we just need an official handoff to whomever can remediate them.
[!CAUTION] Epic Status: OPEN
- This Epic remains open; however, I believe, this Epic can be closed?
- It is not currently closed because there is a content task list, so wanting to make sure that is work that is no longer being done, before closing this Epic, since it is a cross-collaboration within CAIA (@NaomiPMC @strelichl)
[!IMPORTANT]
- Audit Status: Completed and provided to OCTO.
- Tickets: Only the items that are checked with tickets are the remediation needs.
- Recommendation: "Unfortunately, these forms are currently inaccessible per our testing, so we believe it is imperative that we or another PDF specialist get access to these forms to fix them."
- PDF Remediation Status: Work not requested at this time.
@strelichl - Ok to close this ticket, per Martha via Slack on June 3, 2024.
Thanks, closing this now!
Issue Description
We need to audit the site for supporting form PDFs--we'll need to go through each of the forms on the supporting forms page and check for other links on static pages to the PDFs or form detail pages (like the "About form X" pages). Additionally, these forms will need to be audited for PDF accessibility.
Tasks
a11y task list
in this ticket)content task list
in this ticket)Acceptance Criteria
[x] Form 20-10206 Request personal records