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Re: can screenreader user please test expanding content?

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 2, 2011 12:21PM

Actually, the page does not have a title either *grin* or did not when
I tested it yesterday. But I only tested the JQuery functionality
without thinking about the other issues, but thanks Dylan, I will go
download this app and test it for accessibility, could come in handy.

On 4/2/11, Dylan Barrell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Angela,
>
> I tested you site using Worldspace FireEyes and found the following a11y
> issues:
>
> 1) There are no visible focus styles for the keyboard focusable anchor
> tags that toggle the accordion open (example <a href="#">
> eCommerce</a>)
> 2) There is no language set for the page
> 3) There are no alt texts on your images in the content (but this may
> be because it is not real content)
> 4) The color contrast of your h1 on the page is below the WCAG 2 AA
> threshold of 3:1 for text of that size (contrast ratio is 2.32:1)
>
> On the plus side, the page passed all the dynamic content analysis
> rule in FireEyes so it looks like a screen reader user will be able to
> access it without difficulty.
>
> These tests took me about 5 minutes to administer with FireEyes which
> is free and can be downloaded from here:
>
> http://worldspace.deque.com/
>
> --Dylan
>