Technical Accessibility Roadmap for Aberystwyth University’s Public Forms

Improvements Required

Forms                      

Some form fields do not have appropriate autocomplete attributes defined. This can mean that it's more difficult for people using assistive technology to understand what data should be entered. This doesn't meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose. We are working on making improvements to all of our forms  to ensure that all relevant fields have autocomplete attributes.

Form controls do not appear sufficiently distinct from their surroundings, so that people with visual impairments are still able to clearly see them. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast. We will explore ways of improving the colour contrast for form controls.

Headings

Some pages have multiple heading 1 content. This is confusing when the pages are accessed using assistive technology. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.1 Info and Relationships. We will work our way through the forms, updating pages to fix up the heading levels.

Links

Some pages have links that have insufficient colour contrast with the surrounding text and has no styling (such as underline) to distinguish it from the surrounding text. This is confusing when the pages are accessed using assistive technology. This doesn’t meet WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.1. We will explore ways of making links more distinguishable from the surrounding text, either by ensuring sufficient colour contrast between text, or introducing distinguishing styling.