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Re: Starting my first accessibility testing

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 11, 2020 7:50AM

Vsievolod -

The WAVE presentation is highly visual with accessibility feedback injected into the existing web page layout via icons. Each WAVE icon has descriptive alternative text and describes an issue relevant to a page element either immediately before or after the WAVE icon. WAVE cannot fix the accessibility issues that are present, so sometimes the page inaccessibility makes it more difficult to explore the results, especially for pages that are very complex or have many accessibility issues.

The WAVE sidebar provides an overview of the numbers and types of items that have been identified. There's also a "Code" button after the page (it's also defined as a landmark/region) that will open a code panel that presents the WAVE icons in conjunction with the relevant code.

We'll be releasing a new update in the coming days that has a few accessibility enhancement, but WAVE can admittedly be a bit complex for anyone on some pages due to the page complexity and the number of accessibility items identified. We're very open to recommendations for improvement.

Thanks,

Jared