www.hackney.gov.uk: week 2026-W45

The results below cover only the pages the scanner could reach.

Blocked by a firewall: 105 page(s) got a challenge or refusal instead of the page (HTTP 403 × 104, HTTP 202 × 1). Identified as Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF challenge (x-amzn-waf-action).

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This is the 2026-W45 ISO-week report (972 pages fetched, 859 unique pages audited by axe/Alfa). Generated 2026-11-04. Compared against 2026-W44 (1166 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: 10 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: 5
Fixed this week: 0
Regressed this week: 0

Over the whole history of this site, 1489 unique pages have been scanned at least once; 1426 have known accessibility issues. 859 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.
Issue	Requirement	Severity	Pages	Who it affects	How to fix	Evidence
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A)	Critical	856	Without vision, Limited vision	See remediation guidance: https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/4.14/aria-input-field-name?application=axeAPI	pages (CSV)
Form field has accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A)	Moderate	432	Without vision, Limited vision	Associate the form field with a label.	pages (CSV)
Frames must have an accessible name (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A)	Serious	21	Without vision, Limited vision	Give every <iframe> a descriptive title attribute.	pages (CSV)
Links must have discernible text (WCAG 2.4.4) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 2.4.4 (2.0, Level A)	Serious	2	Without vision, Limited vision	Give the link discernible text. Avoid empty links and icon-only links without an aria-label.	pages (CSV)
Required ARIA attributes must be provided (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A)	Critical	1	Without vision, Limited vision	Add the ARIA attributes this role requires (e.g. aria-checked on a checkbox role).	pages (CSV)
Images must have alternative text (WCAG 1.1.1) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 1.1.1 (2.0, Level A)	Critical	1	Without vision, Limited vision	Give every <img> a meaningful alt attribute. Use alt="" only for decorative images so screen readers skip them.	pages (CSV)
ARIA hidden element must not be focusable or contain focusable elements (WCAG 4.1.2) (rule↗)	Legally required WCAG 4.1.2 (2.0, Level A)	Serious	1	Without vision, Limited vision	Don't put focusable elements inside aria-hidden="true"; they become a keyboard trap for screen-reader users.	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)	Serious	1	Without vision, Limited vision	Use <ul>/<ol> with only <li> children for lists; don't fake lists with <div>s.	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.
Issue	Type	Pages	How to fix	Evidence
Text has enhanced contrast (WCAG 1.4.6) (rule↗)	Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.6 (2.0, Level AAA)	434	Increase text contrast to meet WCAG AAA (7:1).	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)	434	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r111	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)	432	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r73	pages (CSV)
Paragraph line height uses a relative unit (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗)	Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.8 (2.0, Level AAA)	1	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r80	pages (CSV)
Paragraph font size uses a relative unit (WCAG 1.4.8) (rule↗)	Aspirational (AAA) WCAG 1.4.8 (2.0, Level AAA)	1	See remediation guidance: https://alfa.siteimprove.com/rules/sia-r74	pages (CSV)

Progress

Open findings by severity over 2 weeks (lower is better)

Open findings by severity, by week
Week	Critical	Serious	Moderate	Minor
2026-W44	2	4	17	2
2026-W45	3	5	18	2

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 28 issue type(s)

Median axe violations / page: 1
Pages with axe violations: 859 of 859 CSV
Median Alfa failures / page: 37
Pages with Alfa failures: 434 of 434 CSV
Unique pages audited: 859
Lighthouse performance (median): 54/100 73 sampled details
Lighthouse SEO (median): 100/100
Lighthouse best practices (median): 73/100
Lighthouse agentic (median): 50/100
Words per page (median): 438 main content, nav excluded
Reading ease (median): 43.1 113 prose pages details
Reading grade (median): 14.3
Misspellings: 25+ distinct details
Broken links: 141 details
Median page weight: 2.7 MB +106 KB worse
Median requests per page: 42
Estimated energy per page (mean): 1.0217 Wh

Note: page counts differ between weeks (1166 → 972). Prefer the "pages affected" columns over raw instance counts when comparing.

Scan coverage this week (972 pages · 860 succeeded of 973 attempted)

Pages each engine ran on, per the configured weekly sampling rates.
Engine	Pages	Coverage
axe	859	88%
resources	859	88%
standards	447	46%
alfa	434	45%
plain-language	424	44%
deprecated-html	95	10%
security	87	9%
sustainability	81	8%
tech	78	8%
lighthouse	73	8%

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

Changes since 2026-W44 7 change(s)

axe-core

New: aria-allowed-role appeared this week.
New: aria-required-attr appeared this week.
New: aria-hidden-focus appeared this week.
Resolved: empty-heading no longer fails on any scanned page.

Alfa

New: sia-r86 appeared this week.
New: sia-r69 appeared this week.
Resolved: sia-r11 no longer fails on any scanned page.

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 (3)

167 distinct resources, by type.
Type	Count
PDF documents	59
Iframes	49
Embedded media players	48
Archives (zip, etc.)	8
Word/text documents	2
Spreadsheets	1