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raksha-life / rescuekerala

Website for coordinating rehabilitation of people affected in the Kerala Floods
https://keralarescue.in
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Website accessibility issues for people who use screenreaders #833

Open vjayakumar opened 6 years ago

vjayakumar commented 6 years ago

How can blind people use this otherwise impressive webapp when it is not accessible?

Both people with vision impairment and people with dyslexia use TTS by way of screenreaders like NVDA (FOSS) or JAWS (commercial) in addition to mobile platforms equivalents like Talkback on Android and VoiceOver in iOS.

So it's important that the WCAG 2.1 principles are followed so that blind citizens can also use the webapp independently. These are concepts that are easy to understand and even easier to fix especially if baked into development.

WebAim's WAVE tool's report of homepage alone is available at http://wave.webaim.org/report#/keralarescue.in to capture the broad accessibility issues, WebAim is also an excellent resource to refer for document, multimedia and CAPTCHA accessibility.

I have attached the test PowerMapper report which include the problems faced in the 1st 10 pages of the site.

Please adhere to this going forward as it is an unnecessary barrier preventing some of us from accessing our right to crisis information.

PowerMapper-Report-Kerala-Rescue-Website.pdf

ja8zyjits commented 6 years ago

looks good, some one holding expertise in Accessibility Compliance shall check out and do the necessary modifications. Thanks for pointing it out.

vjayakumar commented 6 years ago

Best to avoid the blinking text in announcements too. Seizure trigger at worst,. Eye strain at best. It's eye-catching enough without the blinking.