Accessibility
· 13 checks — Landmarks, headings, alt text, forms, and link quality rolled into one auditable list.DDark Mode SupportActionNo dark mode signalsFIX
Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles.
DPrint StylesheetActionNo print stylesFIX
BHeading Hierarchy84 headings, 1 skip(s)REVIEW
- H3 Your Privacy
- H1 TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
- H3 Israel and Lebanon Agree to 10-Day Ceasefire, Trump Announces skipped
- H3 Diplomats Fear Trump's Iran Envoys Are Making Things Worse
- H3 Why Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade May Be a Gift to China
- H3 How We Chose the 2026 TIME100
- H3 The Seven Democrats Who Joined Republicans in Opposing Measure to Block Arms Sales to Israel
- H3 Super-Rich Come to Washington Pleading to Pay More in Taxes
- H3 Trump Order to Require Banks to Collect Citizenship Info 'In Process,' Bessent Says
- H2 Newsletters
- H2 How to Watch the TIME100 Gala Red Carpet Livestream
- H3 How Live Nation Verdict May Affect Ticket Prices
- H3 The Myth of the Adult Friend Group
- H3 How AI Can Beat Cancer
- H3 Breaking Down the Finale of Beef Season 2
- H2 (empty)
- H3 SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell Aims to Put AI on the MoonSpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell Aims to Put AI on the Moon
- H2 People
- H3 Noah Wyle
- H3 Alysa Liu
- H3 Dolores Huerta
- H3 Zohran Mamdani
- H2 Voices
- H3 How Canada Fell in Love with Mark Carney
- H3 The City That Refuses to Break: Why Dubai Will March On
- H3 Agency in the Age of AI
- H3 Universities Must Reinvent Themselves for the Intelligent Age
- H2 The 100 Most Influential People of 2026
- H2 Health
- H3 Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence
- H3 Why It’s So Hard to Reach Your Doctor
- H3 Forget the Midlife Crisis. It May Be Your Happiest Chapter Yet
- H3 Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence
- H3 Forget the Midlife Crisis. It May Be Your Happiest Chapter Yet
- H3 Why It’s So Hard to Reach Your Doctor
- H3 Two New Drugs Offer Hope for Pancreatic Cancer
- H3 Why You Should Do a 2-Minute Mortality Check-In
- H3 Two New Drugs Offer Hope for Pancreatic Cancer
- H3 Why You Should Do a 2-Minute Mortality Check-In
- H3 Should I Take CoQ10?
- H3 Heart Disease Is Preventable. Why Does It Kill So Many?
- H2 Entertainment
- H3 Breaking Down the Finale of Beef Season 2
- H3 Nikki Glaser Is Saying Yes to It All
- H3 Wagner Moura Wants to Tell You the Truth
- H3 Breaking Down the Finale of Beef Season 2
- H3 Wagner Moura Wants to Tell You the Truth
- H3 Nikki Glaser Is Saying Yes to It All
- H3 Luke Combs Refuses to Believe You Don’t Like Country Music
- H3 Zoe Saldaña Doesn’t Take This for Granted
- H3 Luke Combs Refuses to Believe You Don’t Like Country Music
- H3 Zoe Saldaña Doesn’t Take This for Granted
- H3 Love Is War in 'Beef' Season 2: Review
- H3 How to Watch the TIME100 Gala Red Carpet Livestream
- H2 AI
- H3 Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence
- H3 How AI Can Beat Cancer
- H3 Agency in the Age of AI
- H3 Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence
- H3 Agency in the Age of AI
- H3 How AI Can Beat Cancer
- H3 A New AI Tool Could Transform How We Diagnose Genetic Diseases
- H3 Universities Must Reinvent Themselves for the Intelligent Age
- H3 A New AI Tool Could Transform How We Diagnose Genetic Diseases
- H3 Universities Must Reinvent Themselves for the Intelligent Age
- H3 I’m a Chess Champion. Here’s Why I Play Chess Against ChatGPT
- H3 Davos 2026: A World in Transition
- H2 Climate
- H3 Trump’s Feud With the U.K. Over North Sea Oil: What to Know
- H3 What Percentage of Americans Worry About Climate Change?
- H3 What Péter Magyar's Win Means for Climate Action in Hungary
- H3 Trump’s Feud With the U.K. Over North Sea Oil: What to Know
- H3 What Péter Magyar's Win Means for Climate Action in Hungary
- H3 What Percentage of Americans Worry About Climate Change?
- H3 TIME Earth Awards | 2026
- H3 Esther Finidori
- H3 TIME Earth Awards | 2026
- H3 Esther Finidori
- H3 Doug Field
- H3 Douglas Johnson-Poensgen
- H2 Sections
- H2 More
- H2 About Us
- H2 Your Subscriptions
Skipping heading levels breaks the document outline. Screen readers may interpret missing levels as structural errors.
Skipping heading levels breaks the document outline — screen-reader users lose track of section nesting.
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Screen reader users navigate by jumping between headings (H1 → H2 → H3). Skipping (H1 → H3) breaks the sense of hierarchy. Use sequential levels even if you don't like the default styling — restyle with CSS instead. WCAG 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) treats this as an A failure.
Source: WCAG 2.1 SC 1.3.1 / W3C WAI
Empty headings appear in the document outline but provide no information.
Empty <hN> tags break the document outline — screen-reader users navigating by heading hit dead silence.
Source: WCAG 2.4.6
BAlt Text Quality4 of 68 images have issuesREVIEW
| Issue | Count |
|---|---|
| missing | 1 image(s) |
| filename | 3 image(s) |
Images without alt text are invisible to screen readers.
Each image without alt text is a WCAG 1.1.1 failure — invisible to screen-reader users, lost from Google Image Search.
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WCAG 2.1 Level A requires text alternatives for non-decorative images. Empty alt='' is fine for decorative; meaningful images need descriptive text. Common fixes: CMS audit + bulk add, build-time linter (alt-text-required ESLint rule), CI gate on Lighthouse a11y score.
Source: WCAG 2.1 SC 1.1.1 / WebAIM Million Report
BForm Accessibility2 of 2 controls have issuesREVIEW
| Control | Type | Label | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Your Email) | placeholder only | ||
| #g-recaptcha-response-100000 | textarea | (none) | none |
Form controls need a <label>, aria-label, or aria-labelledby for screen readers.
<textarea name="g-recaptcha-response" id="g-recaptcha-response-100000">
Form controls without labels — assistive tech announces 'edit text' with no context; users can't complete forms.
Source: WCAG 2.1 SC 3.3.2
Placeholder text disappears on focus and is not a reliable label.
<input type="email" name="email">
Placeholder-only labels disappear when the user starts typing — they must remember what the field was for.
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Placeholders are NOT labels. They vanish on input, fail color contrast checks (most are gray), and don't satisfy WCAG SC 3.3.2. Always use a real <label> alongside (or aria-labelledby).
Source: WCAG 2.1 SC 3.3.2 / Nielsen Norman
CLink & Button QualityAction5 issue(s) across 208 links and 21 buttonsREVIEW
| Element | Text | Issue | Suggested Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.ketch.com/?utm_campaign=cust… | Learn more about Ketch for dat… | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| (empty) | empty | Add link text or aria-label | |
| https://legal.time.com/terms-of-service/ | Terms of Service | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| https://legal.time.com/us-privacy-policy… | Privacy Policy | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| https://time.com/article/2026/04/15/time… | Read More | generic text | Replace with descriptive text |
Before: Read More Suggested: Time100 Gala Red Carpet Livestream | |||
| https://time.com/article/2026/03/26/gwyn… | Read More | generic text | Replace with descriptive text |
Before: Read More Suggested: Gwynne Shotwell Profile | |||
| https://time.com/section/ideas | Read More | generic text | Replace with descriptive text |
Before: Read More Suggested: Ideas | |||
| https://time.com/collection/100-most-inf… | Read More | generic text | Replace with descriptive text |
Before: Read More Suggested: 2026 | |||
| https://www.facebook.com/time | Share on Facebook | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en | Share on Instagram | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| https://twitter.com/time | Share on X | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
| https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine | Share on Pinterest | new tab | Add '(opens in new tab)' to text |
Links without text are announced as raw URLs by screen readers.
a#maincontent
Links with no accessible text (empty <a></a>, image-only no alt, icon-only no aria-label) are unidentifiable to screen readers.
Source: WCAG 2.1 SC 2.4.4
Generic link text like 'click here' doesn't describe the destination.
https://time.com/article/2026/04/15/time100-gala-red-carpet-livestream/ ("Read More"); https://time.com/article/2026/03/26/gwynne-shotwell-profile/ ("Read More"); https://time.com/section/ideas ("Read More"); https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/ ("Read More")
Generic anchor text ('click here', 'read more', 'learn more') tells screen readers and search engines nothing about the destination.
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Out-of-context lists of links read by AT (one navigation pattern) become useless when every link says 'click here'. Use the destination's title or topic as anchor text. Doubles as SEO win — Google passes anchor-text relevance to the destination.
Source: WCAG 2.4.4 / Google Search Central
Add '(opens in new tab)' to link text or aria-label.
https://www.ketch.com/?utm_campaign=customer%20banner&utm_source=ketchcookieb…; https://legal.time.com/terms-of-service/; https://legal.time.com/us-privacy-policy/; https://www.facebook.com/time; https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en; https://twitter.com/time; https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine
Links with target="_blank" without rel="noopener" leak the originating page's window context — security and UX issue.
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Without rel="noopener", the new tab can navigate the original tab via window.opener (tab-nabbing attack). Modern browsers default to noopener for target=_blank but only since recent versions. Always set rel="noopener noreferrer" explicitly.
Source: MDN target / OWASP
BFavicon & Branding7 icon(s) detectedREVIEW
BWeb ManifestValid manifestREVIEW
ALandmark Structure29 landmarksPASS
Multiple navigations need aria-label to distinguish them for screen readers.
Some <nav> elements lack aria-label — screen-reader users hear 'navigation' multiple times with no way to distinguish them.
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When a page has multiple <nav> regions (primary, footer, breadcrumb), each needs aria-label or aria-labelledby. AT users navigate by landmark; identical 'navigation' announcements force them to enter each one to discover purpose.
Source: WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
A404 Error PageHTTP 404, custom pagePASS
A+Color Contrast (Screenshot)20 text elements analyzed, 0 fail WCAG AAPASS
Analyzes text contrast against the actual rendered page, including background images, gradients, and overlays that CSS-based tools cannot detect.
Show all checked elements (20)
| Element | Ratio | Required | FG | BG | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| h1 TIME | Current & Bre… | 16.96:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #E6E7E8 | Pass |
| h2 Newsletters | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 People | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Voices | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 The 100 Most Influen… | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Health | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Entertainment | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Climate | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Sections | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 More | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 About Us | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h2 Your Subscriptions | 18.13:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #F0EEEB | Pass |
| h3 Your Privacy | 9.79:1 | 3.0:1 | #000000 | #B1B1B1 | Pass |
| title TIME | Current & Bre… | 13.65:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #D6CFCB | Pass |
| p This website uses co… | 9.79:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #B1B1B1 | Pass |
| button Accept All | 13.65:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #D6CFCB | Pass |
| button Manage Peferences | 20.53:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #FFFCF8 | Pass |
| button Reject All | 20.53:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #FFFCF8 | Pass |
| a Skip to Content | 20.53:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #FFFCF8 | Pass |
| span Menu | 19.18:1 | 4.5:1 | #000000 | #FCF3ED | Pass |
Methodology: The top 20 text elements by font size were checked. Background color was sampled from the desktop screenshot using a 5-point pattern. WCAG 2.1 AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text.
A+Lighthouse Accessibility AuditsScore 95/100 — 2 failing, 29 passedPASS
Accessibility
These checks highlight opportunities to improve the accessibility of your web app. Automatic detection can only detect a subset of issues and does not guarantee the accessibility of your web app, so manual testing is also encouraged.
Contrast
Low-contrast text is difficult or impossible for many users to read. Learn how to provide sufficient color contrast.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| Failing Elements |
|---|
COVER ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
PEOPLE ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
VOICES ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
HEALTH ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
ENTERTAINMENT ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
AI ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
CLIMATE ul.flex > li > div > a.inline-flex |
Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: John Lund—Getty Images) article.relative > figure.mb-4 > figcaption.rich-text > span.mt-1 |
Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: the_burtons, Peter Stark—Getty Image… article.relative > figure.mb-4 > figcaption.rich-text > span.mt-1 |
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Navigation
Properly ordered headings that do not skip levels convey the semantic structure of the page, making it easier to navigate and understand when using assistive technologies. Learn more about heading order.
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
| Failing Elements |
|---|
Israel and Lebanon Agree to 10-Day Ceasefire, Trump Announces li.col-span-full > article.relative > div.space-y-4 > h3.break-words |
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.