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Website Accessibility Audit

Help Valley Eye Radio Reading Service assess how accessible their website is to users with disabilities and identify next steps towards a website that will be accessible to all.
Valley Eye Radio Reading Service
Springfield, MA, USA
Valley Eye Radio Reading Service
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Springfield, MA, USA

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Posted January 12th

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Website Accessibility Audit

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What we need
  • A list of the common issues along with the prioritization of both severity and impact of the accessibility issues found
  • List of areas that do not meet the Section 508, ADA, WCAG 2.0 guidelines
  • Specific recommendations to improve product accessibility their priority level (low, medium, and high priority)
  • Estimated time needed to fix current compliance issues
Additional details

Our listener base is reading-impaired (vision loss primarily - or can not hold a newspaper). We don't currently have a library of already recorded programs, but are hoping to add that soon. We are unsure of how accessible our current website is, and would really appreciate an evaluation, before adding more functionality.

What we have in place
  • I am the board chair, I am somewhat familiar with website development and our CMS. I am happy to get answers to any question you have.
How this will help
This project will save us $1,550 , allowing us to focus our limited resources to maximize the benefit to our listening community.

Our organization's mission is serving the disability community. Ensuring that our website is as accessible as possible is critical to deciding how to implement past-programming availability. Also to deciding if we should start from scratch.

Project plan

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Prep: Project Goals, Timeline & Process Established
  • Volunteer Manager provides overview of current website and any past analysis, as well as goals around the level of accessibility compliance they need to achieve
  • Professional explains their accessibility evaluation process and what the audit will entail
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager outline next steps and timeline for the project
  • Volunteer Manager walks Professional through the website, and they determine whether they should audit the full site in the time provided or focus on key page templates and a sampling of content types
  • Both parties review our pro-tips for Organizations and Volunteers to ensure the project is set up for success
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Milestone 1: Website Audited
  • Professional performs both a manual and automated audit of the identified areas of the site against Section 508, WCAG 2.0, and ADA accessibility guidelines
  • Professional determines the severity and impact of any issues that are discovered
  • Professional creates a report including a high-level summary of the findings, the status of any pages included in the audit, and a detailed list of the discovered issues and their severity
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Milestone 2: Audit Reviewed
  • Volunteer Manager reviews draft of audit report and provides feedback to the Professional
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Milestone 3: Finalized Audit Report is Delivered to the Organization
  • Professional delivers final report for the Organization, which includes prioritized recommendations to remediate issues uncovered and achieve the targeted level of accessibility compliance
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Valley Eye Radio Reading Service
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Ellen B.

President, Board of Directors

Our mission

Valley Eye Radio broadcasts accessible local news and information in the Pioneer Valley, fights social isolation, and empowers community engagement for those with vision loss and other disabilities who can no longer read independently. We achieve our mission by mobilizing the power of volunteers, local news reporting, technology, collaborators, and the generosity of donors.

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This project had a broad and not very well-defined scope. Katelyn was flexible and helped work out appropriate deliverables. She was quite resourceful and provided us with a really useful analysis. Thank you to Catchafire and to Katelyn. We are grateful for your help!
Ellen B.

President, Board of Directors

Website Accessibility Audit Project

Ellen is an absolute pleasure to work with. I learned so much speaking with her about the project and she explained how this project would help the organization as a whole.
Katelyn C.
Katelyn C.

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