WCAG 2.0 Level AA Compliance
Hello all. I’m redesigning our site to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA digital accessibility standards and am finding uneditable issues in the theme itself. Does anyone know if it is possible to address this so I can bring the new site into compliance? I don’t want to do all this work only to redo it again not long later.
I have so far seen a low contrast warning for the tagline under our congregation name in the site heading and two heading order issues, one with the service time in the upper right corner (H3, should be H2) and the other in the services widget in the sidebar (also H3, should be H2). I haven’t run my full slate of compliance testing software on the staging site yet, but I’m hoping I don’t find other issues. These are both very basic WCAG standards and I’m honestly surprised that they weren’t caught, especially with the focus on accessibility the UUA has.
Thank you for any assistance you can offer on how I can fix this ASAP. I have one week off my other jobs to get the bulk of this site migration done and did not expect to run into theme issues!
Anna.
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I have also just discovered that both the theme banner with our congregation’s name and the page name are both showing up as H1 heading levels and every page should only have one H1 heading.
Once we move out of the staging site phase, I will be running compliance checks on the site using both Equalize Digital’s plugin and the WAVE tool, in addition to manual testing. I know already that our use of PDFs is going to fail checks (we are archiving some documents, others I will be working on eventually turning into HTML pages instead), but I would really love to have the theme updates meet WCAG standards so we can uphold our commitment to accessibility to the fullest we’re able.
Thank you.