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go.walsall.gov.uk: week 2026-W45

This is the 2026-W45 ISO-week report (994 pages fetched, 968 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-11-04. Compared against 2026-W44 (1984 fetched). The dashboard headline uses a rolling last-7-days window; this page is the full ISO week. Machine-readable API: snapshot.json · findings.json.

Primary standards queue: 0 required finding type(s) (handling: report). Verification queue: 11 required finding type(s) (handling: review). Aspirational queue: 0 finding type(s). Advisory queue: 0 finding type(s). Unmapped review queue: 0 finding type(s).

New this week
0
Fixed this week
0
Regressed this week
0

994 distinct URLs scanned (968 audited). 217 of them belong to 1 declared page familie(s), counted as 1 implementation(s); the other 777 have no established implementation count. 7 of 31 engine findings are verified shared-component findings (Cookie consent dialog); every observation is still counted. Scope of analysis

Over the whole history of this site, 2912 unique pages have been scanned at least once; 2905 have known accessibility issues. 968 of them were re-checked this ISO week. Download full data (JSON).

Fix these first

Required findings only: legally required first (UK accessibility regulations (PSBAR 2018): WCAG 2.1 AA), then the rest of the WCAG 2.2 AA target. Within each, ranked by pages affected × severity × people reached. Fixing a shared component often clears many pages at once. Issue links go to the full bug detail on the Accessibility page.

Top 8 required issues to prioritize this week.
IssueRequirementSeverityPagesWho it affectsHow to fixEvidence
Buttons must have discernible text (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A) Critical 968 Without vision, Limited vision Give the button an accessible name via its text content, aria-label, or aria-labelledby. pages (CSV)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.3.1 (2.0, Level A) Critical 968 Without vision, Limited vision Add the child roles this container role requires (e.g. a list needs listitem children). pages (CSV)
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.3.1 (2.0, Level A) Critical 968 Without vision, Limited vision Place this ARIA role inside its required parent role (e.g. an option must be inside a listbox). pages (CSV)
<ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.3.1 (2.0, Level A) Critical 968 Without vision, Limited vision Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s. pages (CSV)
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds (WCAG 1.4.3) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.4.3 (2.0, Level AA) Critical 968 Limited vision, Without color perception Increase the contrast between text and its background to at least 4.5:1 (3:1 for large text). Check both light and dark modes. pages (CSV)
Form field has accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A) Moderate 490 Without vision, Limited vision Associate the form field with a label. pages (CSV)
Element has its required owned elements (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.3.1 (2.0, Level A) Moderate 490 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r68 pages (CSV)
Element in required WAI-ARIA context role (WCAG 1.3.1) (rule↗) Legally required WCAG 1.3.1 (2.0, Level A) Moderate 490 Without vision, Limited vision See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r42 pages (CSV)

Beyond the requirements

Not required for conformance. AAA criteria are aspirational stretch goals and best practices are advisory: worth doing, after the required findings above.

Top 5 aspirational, best-practice and unmapped issues.
IssueTypePagesHow to fixEvidence
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗) Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.6 (2.0, Level AAA) 490 Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1). pages (CSV)
Paragraph font size uses a relative unit (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.8 (2.0, Level AAA) 490 See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74 pages (CSV)
Paragraph line height is at least 1.5 (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗) Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.8 (2.0, Level AAA) 490 See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73 pages (CSV)
Target size is at least 44×44 CSS pixels (Enhanced) (WCAG 2.5.5) (rule↗) Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 2.5.5 (2.1, Level AAA) 490 See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111 pages (CSV)
All page content should be contained by landmarks (best practice, not a WCAG requirement) (rule↗) Best practice not a WCAG requirement 968 Wrap all page content in landmarks (header, nav, main, footer) so users can navigate by region. pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)
Critical Serious Moderate Minor W44W45230

Dropped from this week's sample

These stopped appearing in scan results, but their pages were not re-checked this week — this is not a confirmed fix.

This week at a glance 31 issue type(s)
Median axe violations / page
20
Pages with axe violations
968 of 968 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page
80
Pages with Alfa failures
490 of 490 CSV
Unique pages audited
968
Lighthouse performance (median)
28/100 101 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median)
92/100
Lighthouse best practices (median)
73/100
Lighthouse agentic (median)
50/100
Words per page (median)
87 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median)
75 172 prose pages details
Reading grade (median)
6
Misspellings
25+ distinct details
Broken links
34 details
Median page weight
11.0 MB -106 KB better
Median requests per page
512
Estimated energy per page (mean)
3.3222 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1984 → 994). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (994 pages · 968 succeeded of 994 attempted)
Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
EnginePagesCoverage
axe96897%
resources96897%
standards49149%
alfa49049%
plain-language48349%
tech10310%
security10310%
sustainability10210%
lighthouse10110%
deprecated-html9610%

History & Trends → Severity, Lighthouse and other measures across 2 weeks.

Changes since 2026-W44 9 change(s)

axe-core

  • Resolved: frame-title no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: image-alt no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: link-name no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • heading-order spread: 274 → 363 pages affected (rate: 14% → 38% of pages scanned).

Alfa

  • Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • Resolved: sia-r113 no longer fails on any scanned page.
  • sia-r53 spread: 137 → 184 pages affected (rate: 14% → 38% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r61 spread: 165 → 208 pages affected (rate: 17% → 42% of pages scanned).
  • sia-r18 shrank: 284 → 124 pages affected (rate: 28% → 25% of pages scanned).

Embedded & linked resources

Non-HTML resources this site links to or embeds — PDFs, Office documents, iframes, and media. The site owner is responsible for their accessibility too. Full inventory with first-seen dates: CSV.

New this week (1834)

1852 distinct resources, by type.
TypeCount
Iframes1627
PDF documents217
Word/text documents4
Embedded media players2
Spreadsheets2