Accessibility

· 13 checks — Landmarks, headings, alt text, forms, and link quality rolled into one auditable list.

SCORE

GRADE

FIX

REVIEW

PASS

INFO

Checks

8 PASS 1 REVIEW 4 FIX

Web Manifest

Action

Valid manifest

FIX

Valid manifest

No name or short_name

Add a name field to identify the app.

192x192 icon present

512x512 icon present

PWA Install Criteria Not Installable

Name ✗192×192 icon ✓512×512 icon ✓Start URL ✗Display Mode ✗

Icons 6 icon(s)

Dark Mode Support

Action

Theme color only

FIX

Theme color only

Theme-color present but no dark variant

A theme-color is set but no dark-specific variant was found. The browser toolbar may not adapt for dark mode users.

Got: #0b0c0c

No dark mode signals detected

Consider adding CSS with @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and <meta name='color-scheme' content='light dark'>.

Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles

External CSS files may contain prefers-color-scheme rules not visible to this scan.

Dark ModePartial Dark Mode

color-scheme meta Not set ✗Dark theme-color Not set ✗CSS indicators Not detected ✗

Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles.

Print Stylesheet

Action

No print styles

FIX

No print styles

No print-specific styles detected

When users print this page, they get the screen layout including navigation and non-essential elements. Add @media print rules to hide navigation and optimize layout for paper.

Print Stylesheet No Print Styles

Print stylesheet Not found ✗Inline @media print Not detected ✗

404 Error Page

HTTP 404, custom page

REVIEW

HTTP 404, custom page

Correct 404 status code returned

Got: HTTP 404

Custom styled 404 page

Navigation links present on 404 page

404 Page Quality ✓ Custom 404 Page

Status Code HTTP 404 ✓Page Title GOV.UK ✓Custom Styling ✓Navigation ✓Homepage Link ✗Search Form ✗

Landmark Structure

3 landmarks

PASS

3 landmarks

<main> landmark present

No <nav> landmark found

Skip navigation link present

Page Structure — as a screen reader sees it

A+

Heading Hierarchy

152 headings

PASS

152 headings

Single H1 present

H1 GOV.UK blogs
H2 Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping: what you need to know
H2 How to register as a childminder and receive a grant worth up to £1,200
H3 Latest blog posts
H4 Data standards: Laying the groundwork for an open, faster, data-driven planning system
H4 150 years on: the trade marks that mean the most to us
H4 Earth Day: The Power of Earth Observation
H4 Protecting students through smart regulation: introducing the Chief Regulator's Rebuke
H2 Find a blog
H2 140 blogs found
H3 A Modern Civil Service
H3 APHA Science Blog
H3 Accelerated Capability Environment
H3 Accessibility in government
H3 Actuaries in government
H3 BEIS Digital
H3 Buying for Schools
H3 Cabinet Office Digital
H3 Charity Commission
H3 Children’s social care
H3 Civil Service
H3 Civil Service Fast Stream
H3 Civil Service Fast Track
H3 Civil Service Local
H3 Civil Service Quarterly
H3 Cleaning up our nuclear past: faster, safer and sooner
H3 Commission for Countering Extremism
H3 Community Interest Companies
H3 Companies House
H3 Competition and Markets Authority
H3 Creating a better place
H3 Cyber & Specialist Operations Command
H3 DCMS Libraries
H3 DHSC Healthcare leaders
H3 DVLA digital services
H3 DVSA digital
H3 DWP Digital
H3 Data in government
H3 Defence Digital
H3 Defra digital, data, technology and security
H3 Defra in the media
H3 Department for Transport digital
H3 Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre
H3 Design in government
H3 Design102
H3 Despatch for driver and rider trainers
H3 DfE Digital, Data and Technology
H3 Digital Skills Partnership
H3 Digital Skills and Inclusion
H3 Digital health and social care
H3 Digital people
H3 Digital trade
H3 Dragons' Den: the Intellectual Property blog
H3 ESFA Digital
H3 Enabling digital identity
H3 Environment
H3 Equality Hub
H3 Fisheries Management Plans
H3 Food Standards Agency
H3 Forestry Commission
H3 Futures, Foresight and Horizon Scanning
H3 Geospatial Insights
H3 Government Data Architecture
H3 Government Digital Service
H3 Government Digital and Data
H3 Government Geography Profession
H3 Government Grants Community
H3 Government Internal Audit Agency
H3 Government Office for Technology Transfer
H3 Government Science and Engineering
H3 Government Shared Services
H3 Government Vets
H3 Government security
H3 Great British Nuclear blog
H3 HM Land Registry
H3 HMRC Valuation Office
H3 History of government
H3 Home Office Digital
H3 Home Office in the media
H3 ICS Digital
H3 Infrastructure and Projects Authority
H3 Inside DIO
H3 Inside DVLA
H3 Inside GOV.UK
H3 Inside HMCTS
H3 Inside MCA
H3 Insolvency Service
H3 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
H3 Intellectual Property Office blog
H3 Justice Digital, Data and Science
H3 Legal aid
H3 Levelling Up Advisory Council
H3 Life Chance Recruitment - Going Forward into Employment (GFiE)
H3 Life at HMRC
H3 Low Pay Commission
H3 MHCLG Digital
H3 MHCLG in the Media
H3 MHRA Inspectorate
H3 Marine Development Blog
H3 Marine Science
H3 Matters of Testing
H3 MedRegs
H3 Moving On
H3 NISTA blog
H3 Natural England
H3 No 10 media blog
H3 ONS Digital, Data and Technology
H3 Office for Product Safety and Standards
H3 Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
H3 Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation
H3 Office of the Public Guardian
H3 Ofsted: early years
H3 Ofsted: education
H3 Ofsted: social care
H3 Online Safety Data Initiative
H3 PHE Screening
H3 Planning Inspectorate
H3 Policy Lab
H3 Public Policy Design
H3 Regulatory Policy Committee
H3 Responsible Technology Adoption Unit Blog
H3 Rural payments
H3 Services in government
H3 Skills England
H3 Social Security Advisory Committee
H3 Social care
H3 Social work with adults
H3 Supporting Families Programme
H3 Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s Office
H3 Systems thinking
H3 Teaching
H3 Technology in government
H3 The Blue Belt Programme
H3 The Disability Unit
H3 The Education Hub
H3 The Farming Blog
H3 The King’s Awards for Enterprise
H3 The Ofqual blog
H3 The Prison Leavers Project
H3 Trade Remedies Authority
H3 UK Export Finance Digital, Data and Technology blog
H3 UK Government Sustainable ICT
H3 UK Health Security Agency
H3 UK Hydrographic Office
H3 UK National Screening Committee
H3 UK Space Agency blog
H3 User research in government
H3 Veterans Today
H3 Veterinary Medicines Directorate
H3 Working in the Prison and Probation Service
H3 No blogs found
H2 Useful links

A+

Alt Text Quality

All 2 images OK

PASS

All 2 images OK

2 image(s) with good alt text

2 images 2 good alt text

All images have appropriate alt text.

A+

Form Accessibility

All 2 controls labeled

PASS

All 2 controls labeled

2 control(s) properly labeled

2 controls

2 labeled

0 placeholder only

0 unlabeled

Control	Type	Label	Method
#blog-selector-contains	text	Contains	for/id
#blog-selector-department	select	Organisation	for/id

A+

Link & Button Quality

166 links, 0 buttons — all OK

PASS

166 links, 0 buttons — all OK

166 link(s) with descriptive text

166 links

0 empty

0 generic text

0 new tab

0 empty buttons

All links and buttons have descriptive accessible text.

166 links and buttons have descriptive text

Favicon & Branding

13 icon(s) detected

PASS

13 icon(s) detected

favicon.ico present at site root

HTML icon links detected

Apple touch icon present

SVG favicon detected — scales perfectly to any size

Multiple icon sizes detected

✓ favicon.ico Present

✓ PNG Icons Present

✓ Apple Touch Present

✓ SVG Favicon Present

✓ Manifest Icons Present

✓ Multiple Sizes Present

A+

Color Contrast (Screenshot)

20 text elements analyzed, 0 fail WCAG AA

PASS

Analyzes text contrast against the actual rendered page, including background images, gradients, and overlays that CSS-based tools cannot detect.

20 pass

Show all checked elements (20)

Element	Ratio	Required	FG	BG	Result
h2 Find a blog	7.37:1	3.0:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
h2 Useful links	7.37:1	3.0:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
h3 Latest blog posts	7.37:1	3.0:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
h3 No blogs found	7.37:1	3.0:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
title GOV.UK blogs	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a Skip to main content	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a GOV.UK blogs	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
span Posted on:	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
time 15 April 2024	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
span On blog:	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a Department of Health…	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a Creating a smokefree…	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
p The Prime Minister h…	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
span Posted on:	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
time 16 April 2024	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
span On blog:	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a The Education Hub	19.67:1	4.5:1	#000000	#F4F8FB	Pass
a How to register as a…	7.37:1	4.5:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
p We’re making the …	7.37:1	4.5:1	#000000	#999999	Pass
a Data standards: Layi…	7.37:1	4.5:1	#000000	#999999	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 Audits

Score 97/100 — 1 failing, 27 passed

PASS

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.

Best practices

Touch targets with sufficient size and spacing help users who may have difficulty targeting small controls to activate the targets. Learn more about touch targets.

Why this matters

Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.

Failing Elements
The Education Hub `div.featured-posts > section.govuk-grid-column-one-third > div.meta > a`
MHCLG Digital `ul.govuk-list > li > div.meta > a`
Earth Day: The Power of Earth Observation `ul.govuk-list > li > h4.govuk-heading-s > a`
UK Space Agency blog `ul.govuk-list > li > div.meta > a`

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

○Interactive controls are keyboard focusable

○Interactive elements indicate their purpose and state

○The page has a logical tab order

○Visual order on the page follows DOM order

○User focus is not accidentally trapped in a region

○The user's focus is directed to new content added to the page

○HTML5 landmark elements are used to improve navigation

○Offscreen content is hidden from assistive technology

○Custom controls have associated labels

○Custom controls have ARIA roles

●`[aria-*]` attributes match their roles

●`[aria-hidden="true"]` is not present on the document `<body>`

●`[role]`s have all required `[aria-*]` attributes

●`[role]` values are valid

●`[aria-*]` attributes have valid values

●`[aria-*]` attributes are valid and not misspelled

●Buttons have an accessible name

●Image elements have `[alt]` attributes

●Form elements have associated labels

●`[user-scalable="no"]` is not used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element and the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is not less than 5.

●Select elements have associated label elements.

●ARIA attributes are used as specified for the element's role

●Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` have accessible names.

●`[aria-hidden="true"]` elements do not contain focusable descendents

●Elements use only permitted ARIA attributes

●Background and foreground colors have a sufficient contrast ratio

●Document has a `<title>` element

●`<html>` element has a `[lang]` attribute

●`<html>` element has a valid value for its `[lang]` attribute

●Links are distinguishable without relying on color.

●Links have a discernible name

●Lists contain only `<li>` elements and script supporting elements (`<script>` and `<template>`).

●List items (`<li>`) are contained within `<ul>`, `<ol>` or `<menu>` parent elements

●No element has a `[tabindex]` value greater than 0

●Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order

●Document has a main landmark.

●Deprecated ARIA roles were not used

○`[accesskey]` values are unique

○`button`, `link`, and `menuitem` elements have accessible names

○ARIA input fields have accessible names

○ARIA `meter` elements have accessible names

○ARIA `progressbar` elements have accessible names

○Elements with an ARIA `[role]` that require children to contain a specific `[role]` have all required children.

○`[role]`s are contained by their required parent element

○Elements with the `role=text` attribute do not have focusable descendents.

○ARIA toggle fields have accessible names

○ARIA `tooltip` elements have accessible names

○ARIA `treeitem` elements have accessible names

○The page contains a heading, skip link, or landmark region

○`<dl>`'s contain only properly-ordered `<dt>` and `<dd>` groups, `<script>`, `<template>` or `<div>` elements.

○Definition list items are wrapped in `<dl>` elements

○ARIA IDs are unique

○No form fields have multiple labels

○`<frame>` or `<iframe>` elements have a title

○`<html>` element has an `[xml:lang]` attribute with the same base language as the `[lang]` attribute.

○Input buttons have discernible text.

○`<input type="image">` elements have `[alt]` text

○The document does not use `<meta http-equiv="refresh">`

○`<object>` elements have alternate text

○Skip links are focusable.

○Cells in a `<table>` element that use the `[headers]` attribute refer to table cells within the same table.

○`<th>` elements and elements with `[role="columnheader"/"rowheader"]` have data cells they describe.

○`[lang]` attributes have a valid value

○`<video>` elements contain a `<track>` element with `[kind="captions"]`

○Tables have different content in the summary attribute and `<caption>`.

○All heading elements contain content.

○Uses ARIA roles only on compatible elements

○Image elements do not have `[alt]` attributes that are redundant text.

○Identical links have the same purpose.

○Elements with visible text labels have matching accessible names.

○Tables use `<caption>` instead of cells with the `[colspan]` attribute to indicate a caption.

○`<td>` elements in a large `<table>` have one or more table headers.

All checks on this page are automated. Results are estimates - run targeted manual reviews when the score affects a release decision.