Denbighshire Housing Accreditation
Digital Accessibility Centre Certificate of Accreditation
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Certification
To achieve certification each website undergoes a manual technical compliance review against WCAG 2.1 to level AA.
The website underwent both a technical compliance audit and robust end to end testing by users with a wide range of disabilities including blind, low vision, dyslexia, colour blindness, mobility impairments, learning difficulties, Deaf, Asperger and anxiety and panic disorder.
All testing is carried out in line with relevant platform specific guidelines, and where applicable, conforms with The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Testing also conforms to Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
List of issues
High Priority Issues (Level A)
- The skip doesn't appear on all pages.
- Focus order is not correct in places.
- Non-descriptive links and buttons.
- Links and buttons were found without accessible text.
- Links were found that use general text like 'Click Here' with no surrounding text explaining link purpose.
- The visual label must appear in the accessible name of links and controls.
- Multiple heading level ones have been used.
- IMG elements must have an accessible name.
- Decorative images are not ignored by screen readers.
- Clickable controls are missing ARIA roles.
- Document title were found to be blank.
- Data tables row and column headers were not marked up using th elements.
- Active elements must not appear as a descendant of another active element.
- PDFs must be tagged to be accessible by screen readers.
- Figures and images in PDF documents should have non blank ALT text.
Medium Priority Issues (Level AA)
- No keyboard highlighting on the main categories (such as "Pay your rent")
Journey
- Homepage (inc. search, carousel, hamburger menu) Cookies policy – click ‘ I am fine with this’
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/ - Homepage (Welsh) - Cookies policy – click ‘ I am fine with this’
URL : https://www.taisirddinbych.co.uk/ - Search results
URL : - Covid update
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/coronavirusupdate/ - Llwyn Eirin - View ‘about’, in the drop downs in house types - view four-bedroom specification and house type2, and also view site plan
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/LlwynEirin/ - Changes to your tenancy URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/changes-to-your-tenancy/
- Pest control form – fill in the form by entering your details, click ‘I agree, and I am not a robot’ then submit
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/formbuilder/pest-control/view/ - Rents and charges
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/rents-and-charges/ - Your benefits
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/your-benefits-and-universal-credit/ - Investing in our homes - (inc. carousel and select an image from the carousel)
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/investing-in-our-homes/ - Asbestos
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/asbestos/ - News
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/news/ - Newsletter PDF
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/media/documents/issue-7-spring-2021-en.pdf - Accessibility statement
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/accessibility-statement-for-denbighshire-housing/ - Winners
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/winners/ - Contact us – fill in the form by entering your details, click ‘I agree, and I am not a robot’ then submit
URL : https://www.denbighshirehousing.co.uk/formbuilder/contact-us/view/
Disclaimer:
This certificate was issued on the and represents the state of the pages audited on this date. Any further changes after the accreditation date are not covered by this certificate.
Additionally, any pages/areas of the website not listed the above scope of testing are also not covered by this certificate as we cannot guarantee their accessibility state.
We audit against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v2.1 level A and level AA to test how accessible the website is, using theWebsite Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) to evaluate conformance.