Accessibility digest

Introduction

How accessible is the Internet Archive web page at https://archive.org/?

This digest can help answer that question. Nine different tools (Alfa, ASLint, Axe, Equal Access, HTML CodeSniffer, Nu Html Checker, QualWeb, Testaro, and WAVE) tested the page to check its compliance with their accessibility rules. In all, the tools define about 915 rules, which are classified here into about 300 accessibility issues.

The results were interpreted to yield a score, with 0 being ideal. The score for this page was 2437, the sum of 340 for the count of issues, 1222 for specific issues, 217 for tool-by-tool ratings, 600 for the page preventing tools from running, 58 for browser warnings, and 0 for delayed page responses.

Issue summary

Itemized issues

The reported rule violations are itemized below, issue by issue. Additional details can be inspected in the full report.

Issue: line height low

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 1.4.8

Score: 150

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r73

Description: Text line height is not at least 1.5

Count of instances: 1

Violations of testaro rules

Rule lineHeight

Description: Text has a line height less than 1.5 times its font size

Count of instances: 75

Issue: element not focusable

Impact: Keyboard-only user cannot choose an item to operate

WCAG: 2.1.1

Score: 126

Violations of testaro rules

Rule focAll

Description: Discrepancy between elements that should be and that are Tab-focusable

Count of instances: 63

Issue: title attribute invalid

Impact: User cannot hover to get help explaining an item

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 120

Violations of testaro rules

Rule titledEl

Description: title attribute belongs to an inappropriate element

Count of instances: 30

Issue: font small

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 1.4

Score: 117

Violations of testaro rules

Rule miniText

Description: Text node has a font smaller than 11 pixels

Count of instances: 39

Issue: h1 missing

Impact: User cannot understand the topic of the document

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 93

Violations of axe rules

Rule page-has-heading-one

Description: Document contains no level-one heading

Count of instances: 1

Issue: headings missing

Impact: User cannot survey parts of the document

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 93

Violations of wave rules

Rule heading_missing

Description: Page has no headings

Count of instances: 1

Issue: focus indication poor

Impact: Keyboard-only user cannot choose an item to operate

WCAG: 2.4.7

Score: 72

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r65

Description: Element in the sequential focus order has no visible focus

Count of instances: 3

Violations of testaro rules

Rule focInd

Description: Focused element displays a nonstandard or no focus indicator

Count of instances: 18

Issue: target small

Impact: User cannot reliably choose an item to click or tap

WCAG: 2.5.5

Score: 72

Violations of testaro rules

Rule targetSize

Description: Button, input, or non-inline link is smaller than 44 px wide and high

Count of instances: 24

Issue: main missing

Impact: User cannot get help on how some of the document is organized

WCAG: 1.3.6

Score: 62

Violations of axe rules

Rule landmark-one-main

Description: page has no main landmark

Count of instances: 1

Issue: no landmarks

Impact: User cannot get help on how the document is organized

WCAG: 1.3.6

Score: 62

Violations of wave rules

Rule region_missing

Description: Page has no regions or ARIA landmarks

Count of instances: 1

Issue: link indication poor

Impact: User cannot differentiate a link from plain text

WCAG: 1.3.3

Score: 38

Violations of testaro rules

Rule linkUl

Description: Inline links are not underlined

Count of instances: 19

Issue: large visible-element count

Impact: User cannot easily find items in the document

WCAG: 2.4

Score: 31

Violations of testaro rules

Rule bulk

Description: Page contains many visible elements

Count of instances: 1

Issue: skip method missing or invalid

Impact: Keyboard-only user cannot easily reach the specific content of the document

WCAG: 2.4.1

Score: 24

Violations of ibm rules

Rule skip_main_exists

Description: Page provides no way to quickly navigate to the main content

Count of instances: 1

Issue: hover indication poor

Impact: User cannot explore the document reliably with a mouse

WCAG: 3.3.2

Score: 21

Violations of testaro rules

Rule hovInd

Description: Hovering is unclearly indicated

Count of instances: 7

Issue: title attribute redundant

Impact: Helper repeats the explanation of an item

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 20

Violations of testaro rules

Rule linkTitle

Description: Link title value is also contained in the link text

Count of instances: 20

Issue: text contrast improvable

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 1.4.6

Score: 18

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r66

Description: Text contrast less than AAA requires

Count of instances: 18

Violations of axe rules

Rule color-contrast-enhanced

Description: Element has insufficient color contrast (Level AAA)

Count of instances: 10

Issue: focusable element hidden

Impact: Keyboard-only user cannot navigate properly to the operable items

WCAG: 4.1.2

Score: 12

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r17

Description: Tab-focusable element is or has an ancestor that is aria-hidden

Count of instances: 2

Violations of axe rules

Rule aria-hidden-focus

Description: ARIA hidden element is focusable or contains a focusable element

Count of instances: 3

Issue: text contrast poor

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 1.4.3

Score: 12

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r69

Description: Text outside widget has subminimum contrast

Count of instances: 1

Violations of axe rules

Rule color-contrast

Description: Element has insufficient color contrast

Count of instances: 3

Issue: meta invalid

Impact: Document fails to include needed data

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 12

Violations of nuVal rules

Rule ^Bad value .+ for attribute .+ on element meta.*$

Description: Attribute of a meta element has an invalid value

Count of instances: 2

Rule ^Attribute .+ not allowed on element meta at this point.*$

Description: Attribute is not allowed on a meta element here

Count of instances: 1

Rule ^Element meta is missing one or more of the following attributes: .+$

Description: Element is missing a required attribute

Count of instances: 1

Issue: attribute obsolete

Impact: Document includes obsolete code that the browser may fail to process

WCAG: 4.1

Score: 12

Violations of nuVal rules

Rule ^The .+ attribute on the .+ element is obsolete.+$

Description: Attribute is obsolete on its element

Count of instances: 4

Issue: fieldset missing

Impact: User cannot get help recognizing a group of related form items

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 10

Violations of testaro rules

Rule radioSet

Description: No or invalid grouping of radio buttons in fieldsets

Count of instances: 5

Issue: tab-opening link action possibly unstated

Impact: Following a link opens a new window, possibly surprising a user

WCAG: 3.2.5

Score: 9

Violations of testaro rules

Rule linkExt

Description: Link opens a new window or tab

Count of instances: 9

Issue: aria attribute invalid

Impact: Item behavior violates user expectations

WCAG: 4.1.2

Score: 8

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r18

Description: ARIA state or property is not allowed for the element on which it is specified

Count of instances: 2

Issue: skip method possibly missing or invalid

Impact: Keyboard-only user may be unable easily to reach the specific content of the document

WCAG: 2.4.1

Score: 8

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r87

Description: First focusable element is not a link to the main content

Count of instances: 1

Issue: code obsolete

Impact: Document contains code that is no longer standard

WCAG: 4.1

Score: 6

Violations of ibm rules

Rule element_attribute_deprecated

Description: Element or attribute is obsolete

Count of instances: 2

Issue: link not named

Impact: User cannot get help understanding what a link points to

WCAG: 2.4.4

Score: 4

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r11

Description: Link has no accessible name

Count of instances: 1

Issue: hovering changes content

Impact: User cannot explore the document reliably with a mouse

WCAG: 3.2.5

Score: 2

Violations of testaro rules

Rule hover

Description: Hovering changes the page content

Count of instances: 2

Issue: links named identically

Impact: User cannot get help differentiating links

WCAG: 2.4.4

Score: 2

Violations of testaro rules

Rule linkAmb

Description: Links with the same text content have different destinations

Count of instances: 1

Issue: link href missing

Impact: Helper cannot properly explain a link to a user

WCAG: 1.3.1

Score: 2

Violations of testaro rules

Rule linkTo

Description: Link has no href attribute

Count of instances: 1

Issue: content beyond landmarks

Impact: User cannot get help on how some of the document is organized

WCAG: 1.3.6

Score: 1

Violations of alfa rules

Rule r57

Description: Perceivable text content is not included in any landmark

Count of instances: 1

Violations of axe rules

Rule region

Description: Some page content is not contained by landmarks

Count of instances: 1

Issue: text distortion

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 3.1.5

Score: 1

Violations of testaro rules

Rule distortion

Description: Element text is distorted by a transform style property

Count of instances: 1

Issue: z-index not zero

Impact: User cannot predict the effect of clicking

WCAG: 1.4

Score: 1

Violations of testaro rules

Rule zIndex

Description: Element has a nondefault z-index value

Count of instances: 1

Issue: noscript element possibly not equivalent

Impact: User who has disabled JavaScript may be denied some content

WCAG: 4.1

Score: 1

Violations of wave rules

Rule noscript

Description: noscript element may fail to contain an accessible equivalent or alternative

Count of instances: 1

Issue: all-capital text

Impact: Text is difficult to read

WCAG: 3.1.5

Score: 0

Violations of testaro rules

Rule allCaps

Description: Element has a text substring of at least 8 upper-case characters

Count of instances: 2