H590 Spring 2018

Project 1: Web Accessibility Evaluation

Parth Patel, paapatel@iu.edu

Brief Description of the assignment

I evaluated a robust multi-page website and then wrote an accessibility report on it, and provided instructions on how to make it more accessible. I used the WCAG 2.0 standards (Level A), and structured our evaluation using the WCAG-EM template. I found out that website evaluation checks are certainly necessary on websites in order to make them fully compliant according to the accessibility standards. This will ensure that there will be no kind of person that doesn't have the privileges to access the website in question. The website that I evaluated had lots of issues in terms of accessibility and have seen most operating system in-built accessibility tools fail while using that website.

Project Evaluation

1. Executive Summary

This report describes the conformance of the Scoopwhoop website with W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The review process is described in Section 5 below and is based on evaluation described in Accessibility Evaluation Resources.

Based on this evaluation, the Scoopwhoop website does not meet WCAG 2.0, Conformance Level A. Detailed review results are available in Section 6 below. Resources for follow-up study are listed in Section 7 below. Feedback on this evaluation is welcome.

2. Background about Evaluation

Conformance evaluation of web accessibility requires a combination of semi-automated evaluation tools and manual evaluation by an experienced reviewer. The evaluation results in this report are based on evaluation conducted on the following date(s): Feb 9, 2018. The website may have changed since that time.

3. Website Reviewed

Name of website: Scoopwhoop

Base URL of site: www.scoopwhoop.com

URLs included in review:

1. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/

Reviewed semi-automatically and then manually

2. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/mcdonalds-fries-may-help-cure-baldness/?ref=latest&utm_source=home_latest&utm_medium=desktop#.65zorj221

Reviewed semi-automatically and then manually

3. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/category/entertainment/

Reviewed semi-automatically and then manually

Review time: Feb 9, 2018, 2:30 AM

Natural language of website: English

4. Reviewer

Name of reviewer: Parth Patel

Organization with which reviewer is affiliated: IUPUI

Contact information for reviewer: paapatel@iu.edu

Reviewer(s) areas of expertise, by reference to "expertise of review teams" in Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility: Beginner

Natural language(s) with which reviewer is fluent, or familiar: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi

5. Review Process

WCAG 2.0 Level for which conformance was tested: Level A

Evaluation and validation tools used, and versions thereof: WAVE Tool, WCAG 2.0

6. Results and Recommended Actions

Interpretative summary of review results: The website appears to not meet WCAG 2.0 AA

Accessibility features in which this site is strong:

Language of Parts
An ARIA role, state, or property
Presence of a <header> element or banner landmark
Presence of inline frame (<iframe>)

Recommended priorities for addressing inaccessible features of site:

Add alternative text to images for screen readers
Add alternative text to images that have links so that the links are not unusable for screen readers
Form control needs to have a corresponding label
Remove empty links or provide text within the links that describes the functionality and/or target of that link
Remove redundant links or combine the duplicate links into one link