We hope that you find this blog site highly accessible. To this end, the site has the following features:
✔ Adding alt text descriptions to images (applied for social media: Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
✔ Using sufficient colour contrast
✔ Blog is designed to support simple navigation and logical site structure
✔ No animation
✔ Proper use of headings to communicate the organisation of the content on the page
✔ No drop-down menus
✔ Field labels provided in the forms
✔ Use of clear and descriptive links
✔ Closed captions and transcript provided for embedded video (using YouTube features ‘CC’ and ‘open transcript’
✔ Site is navigable using only a keyboard
✔ ‘Skip’ links are used
✔ The language of the document or a page element is identified
✔ Use of ARIA document structure roles
✔ Use of several WordPress accessibility widgets, making the site easier for people using screen readers to navigate, and giving options as to how the page looks.
We have checked the site using the following methods:
✔ Audited the site using the WAVE (Website Accessibility Evaluation) Tool
✔ Unplugging the mouse and navigating the site using only the use only the keyboard to interact with the interact with all controls, links, and menus using only the keyboard (arrow keys, tab, enter and shift tab)
✔ Turning on high contrast mode through systems settings and navigating the site
✔ Turning off the images through browser settings to ensure that links still function and that content still makes sense
✔ Turning off CSS using disable-HTML to ensure that the site is still easy to read and navigate
✔ Site tested on a mobile device
Here are some accessibility features which are still in progress:
* Sign language interpretation provided on some video content
* Site tested by users with various impairments
Please notify us of any accessibility issues or improvements we might make. We will be glad to hear from you. all.institute@mu.ie