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    iroseibud · Member ·

    Hello!

    I’m working on creating a user-friendly website for my scholarship application. I ran a usability check and found some errors. I currently have a free site. Would I able to fix these errors on the free site or would I have to upgrade to modify CSS elements?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    Thanks for getting in touch. Please share the specific errors so we can provide a more accurate answer. Also, we may need to fix some things on our end if that’s the case too.

  • Unknown's avatar
    iroseibud · Member ·

    My free blog is: info25110.wordpress.com

    For my project, I wanted to check for usability so I ran it through WAVE, a wave accessibility evaluation tool:

    https://wave.webaim.org/report#/info25110.wordpress.com

    I see some errors and would like to fix them. However, with a free account, would I be able to modify its CSS?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    The only thing modifying CSS can do is to change the appearance of elements on the screen. Improving a site’s accessibility requires modifying the HTML markup itself, and with the exception of the content of posts and pages, which you control via the post/page editor, that cannot be modified on any WordPress.com site.

    That said, it’s still not clear what you want to change.

    The link you provided says there’s one error, a missing form label, but I don’t see any form on your site, so looks like that’s a false positive. A missing label on a form should also not have any impact on someone using assistive technology from actually using your site.

    There’s a number of alerts, mostly related to elements the tool thinks should be headings but aren’t, but those are all false positives as none of the items flagged are headings.

    Something you need to understand about tools like this is that they just check if your site adheres to a specific set of rules. That’s not the same thing as checking whether a person with special accessibility needs are actually able to use your site, and looking at the issues flagged by this tool, I don’t see any issue that would actually prevent that.

    If you’re aware of an actual problem, i.e. something that causes a problem when trying to navigate via keyboard, or something that’s being read incorrectly by a screen reader, etc, please let us know and we can take a look at that.

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