Communications & Marketing used Siteimprove to identify accessibiltiy issues that could be resolved by making “global” changes to the WCMS templates. He made two sets of changes to the WCMS templates:
- Cascading Stylesheet changes that took effect immediately:
- 01-15-2020: Add color contrast to “skip links” at the top of all pages
- 01-15-2020: Add differentiation colors to breadcrumbs
- 03-06-2020: Add “focus” styles to skip links
- 03-06-2020: Add visibility of search submit button when focused
- HTML template changes that took effect after re-publishing all sites:
- 03-06-2020: Added ARIA landmark roles to all direct children of the body tag
- 03-06-2020: Added ARIA labels to navigation blocks to differentiate between main nav, sidebar nav, footer nav, etc.
- Changed links that pointed to the same location with different link text
All of the WCMS websites were republished on March 6, 2020. A week later, the Siteimprove scores across all WCMS sites tested in the audit improved by an average of 12.66 points.
