Accessibility Scan Report

Title: WA.gov Washington State Issue: #63 Date: 6/5/2026, 1:11:58 AM Duration: 9.3m URLs: 86 / 86
Viewport: Desktop (1280×800) Color scheme: both Browser: chromium
⚡ Reduced Motion: 86 / 86 URLs

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Title keywords

VIEWPORT:desktop COLORSCHEME:both BROWSER:chromium

Issue body section

### Scan context Viewport: desktop ColorScheme: both Browser: chromium

Summary

Issues

  • By Level: A (147), AA (1379)
  • By Version (A & AA): WCAG 2.0 (1526)
  • Engines used: AXE, ALFA
  • By Finding Type: Known errors (1539) & Best practices (26)
  • Manual testing needed: 1010 axe incomplete findings
  • Total: 1565 across 8 unique rules & 1 accessibility engine

By Severity

Critical
Serious
Moderate
Minor

By Role

UX Designer
Visual Designer
Content Author
Front-End Developer

Issues

🎯 Pages with Most Errors

Focus your efforts on these pages to make the biggest impact. Click any error count to filter the rule list below. Numbers in parentheses (+N) indicate findings that cover WCAG criteria already reported by axe.

Professional Licenses | WA.gov 0 252
Government Agency Directory | WA.gov 0 99
Your Government | WA.gov 0 67
List of public utilities in Washington | WA.gov 0 65
Families | WA.gov 0 60
Health & Safety | WA.gov 0 60
Historic Flood Emergency: Financial Resources and Recovery for Washingtonians | WA.gov 0 45
Blindness-related Tools and Services | WA.gov 0 44
Rights and Self-Advocacy | WA.gov 0 42
Electronic and Data Accessibility | WA.gov 0 38

🔧 Most Common Issues (axe)

8 rules
1379 Serious axe SC 1.4.3 AA Visual color-contrast: Ensures text and interactive elements have sufficient contrast ratio (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text) against their background.
55 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Visual Designer

Blocking: No

WCAG: SC 1.4.3 AA

Disabilities affected:
Visual

Affected Pages

Who Is Affected

  • Without Vision 1.0% — ~3,400,000 Americans
  • Limited Vision 2.4% — ~8,100,000 Americans
  • Without Perception of Color 4.3% — ~14,500,000 Americans

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-1d6b6c4d
<a href="/">Home</a>
XPath: .breadcrumb-item:nth-child(1) > a[href="/"]
Example 2 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-859c4e2b
<a href="/people-with-disabilities">People With Disabilities</a>
XPath: .breadcrumb-item:nth-child(2) > a[href$="people-with-disabilities"]
Example 3 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-5fa6f714
<a href="https://nwadacenter.org/index.php?q=training/">Training | ADANW (nwadacenter.org)</a>
XPath: .text-formatted.field--name-body.field--type-text-with-summary > ul:nth-child(2) > li:nth-child(1) > a
Example 4 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-7cef0d9b
<a href="https://adata.org/ada-training">ADA Training | ADA National Network (adata.org)</a>
XPath: a[href$="ada-training"]
Example 5 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fa00b303
<a href="https://www.disabilityempowerment.org/consulting-for-businesses">What We Do: Consulting for Businesses — Disability Empowerment Center</a>
XPath: .text-formatted.field--name-body.field--type-text-with-summary > ul:nth-child(2) > li:nth-child(3) > a
131 Critical axe SC 1.1.1 A Visual image-alt: Ensures every <img> element has alternative text. Without alt text, blind users receive no information about the image's meaning or purpose.
86 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Content Author

Blocking: ⚠️ Yes (Task-Blocking)

WCAG: SC 1.1.1 A

Disabilities affected:
Visual

Affected Pages

Who Is Affected

  • Without Vision 1.0% — ~3,400,000 Americans
  • Limited Vision 2.4% — ~8,100,000 Americans

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Images must have alternative text
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fb8f00ce
<img src="/modules/contrib/wagov_univ_header/FAVICON_WAGOV.png">
XPath: a[href$="wa.gov"] > img
Example 2 View on Page
Images must have alternative text
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fb8f00ce
<img src="/modules/contrib/wagov_univ_header/FAVICON_WAGOV.png">
XPath: a[href$="wa.gov"] > img
Example 3 View on Page
Images must have alternative text
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fb8f00ce
<img src="/modules/contrib/wagov_univ_header/FAVICON_WAGOV.png">
XPath: a[href$="wa.gov"] > img
Example 4 View on Page
Images must have alternative text
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fb8f00ce
<img src="/modules/contrib/wagov_univ_header/FAVICON_WAGOV.png">
XPath: a[href$="wa.gov"] > img
Example 5 View on Page
Images must have alternative text
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-fb8f00ce
<img src="/modules/contrib/wagov_univ_header/FAVICON_WAGOV.png">
XPath: a[href$="wa.gov"] > img
22 Moderate axe Best Practice region: Ensures all page content is contained within landmark regions. Content outside landmarks cannot be found by screen reader users navigating by landmarks.
22 pages affected

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-bd75a8ea
<div class="wrapper-banner">
XPath: .wrapper-banner
Example 2 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-bd75a8ea
<div class="wrapper-banner">
XPath: .wrapper-banner
Example 3 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-bd75a8ea
<div class="wrapper-banner">
XPath: .wrapper-banner
Example 4 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-bd75a8ea
<div class="wrapper-banner">
XPath: .wrapper-banner
Example 5 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-bd75a8ea
<div class="wrapper-banner">
XPath: .wrapper-banner
12 Moderate axe label-title-only
12 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

Affected Pages

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Form elements should have a visible label
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-b1bca790
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="keys" name="keys" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="form-search form-control fas" placeholder="">
XPath: .form-search
Example 2 View on Page
Form elements should have a visible label
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-b1bca790
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="keys" name="keys" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="form-search form-control fas" placeholder="">
XPath: .form-search
Example 3 View on Page
Form elements should have a visible label
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-b1bca790
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="keys" name="keys" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="form-search form-control fas" placeholder="">
XPath: .form-search
Example 4 View on Page
Form elements should have a visible label
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-b1bca790
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="keys" name="keys" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="form-search form-control fas" placeholder="">
XPath: .form-search
Example 5 View on Page
Form elements should have a visible label
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-b1bca790
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="keys" name="keys" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="form-search form-control fas" placeholder="">
XPath: .form-search
4 Moderate axe Best Practice heading-order: Ensures heading levels are not skipped (e.g. h1→h3). Inconsistent heading hierarchy makes page structure difficult to navigate for screen reader users.
4 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Content Author, UX Designer

Blocking: No

WCAG: Best Practice

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Heading levels should only increase by one
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-7a3f842c
<h3 paraeid="{22822a97-584b-47c5-a5c6-b0f92da819e5}{37}" paraid="1333256644"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/materials/factsheets/fs-communicating-with-people.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Using people-first language</a>&nbsp;</h3>
XPath: h3[paraid="1333256644"]
Example 2 View on Page
Heading levels should only increase by one
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-5024c09c
<h2 aria-level="4" id="create-account" paraeid="{5f11862d-080e-4ae3-8c20-35f719db1398}{210}" paraid="1676407293" role="heading">Create a&nbsp;WA.gov&nbsp;account</h2>
XPath: #create-account
Example 3 View on Page
Heading levels should only increase by one
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-25e44a1e
<h3>A</h3>
XPath: h3:nth-child(1)
Example 4 View on Page
Heading levels should only increase by one
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-0390f1d8
<h3><a href="/how-to-guides/create-your-wagov-account" hreflang="en">Create your WA.gov account</a></h3>
XPath: .col-sm-2.col-lg-3.mb-4:nth-child(1) > .how-to.card > .body > h3
1 Moderate axe empty-heading
1 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

Affected Pages

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Headings should not be empty
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-95ba861f
<h1 id="title-404"><span id="main-content" class=""></span></h1>
XPath: #title-404
1 Moderate axe SC 4.1.2 A Visual Motor Cognitive aria-prohibited-attr
1 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

WCAG: SC 4.1.2 A

Disabilities affected:
Visual Motor Cognitive

Who Is Affected

  • Without Vision 1.0% — ~3,400,000 Americans
  • Limited Vision 2.4% — ~8,100,000 Americans
  • Limited Manipulation 2.2% — ~7,600,000 Americans
  • Limited Reach and Strength 5.8% — ~19,600,000 Americans
  • Limited Language, Cognitive, and Learning Abilities 4.7% — ~15,900,000 Americans

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-06-05 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-f33d3218
<div class="html5-video-player ytp-hide-controls ytp-exp-bottom-control-flexbox ytp-modern-caption ytp-livebadge-color unstarted-mode" tabindex="" id="movie_player" data-version="/s/player/9d2ef9ef/player_embed.vflset/en_US/base.js" aria-label="YouTube Video Player">
XPath: iframe