Let's "CHAT" About Accessibility
The acronym CHAT can help you remember what types of automated accessibility issues you can fix as a site manager:
- Color contrast
- Headings
- Alt text (aka text alternative or accessible name)
- Tables
Specifically, you can fix these automated accessibility issues:
- Color contrast ratio is too low (i.e., color contrast does not meet the minimum requirement)
- Empty heading
- Heading level skipped (i.e., headings are not structured)
- Image missing alt text (i.e., image missing a text alternative)
- Link missing accessible name (i.e., link missing a text alternative)
- Button missing accessible name (i.e., button missing a text alternative)
- Empty table header (i.e., table cell missing context)
- Interactive content is nested (i.e., role with implied hidden content has keyboard focus)
- Interactive content is hidden (i.e., hidden element has focusable content)
- Vague link name
What about Other Accessibility Issues?
Automated accessibility checkers like Gamecock Accessibility Checker and Siteimprove can't catch every single accessibility issue on your site.
Refer to our CMS cheat sheet [PDF] for more best practices to apply within Modern Campus CMS.