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Accessibility

· 13 checks — Landmarks, headings, alt text, forms, and link quality rolled into one auditable list.
SCORE
65
GRADE
D
FIX
5
REVIEW
2
PASS
6
INFO
0
Checks
13
6 PASS 2 REVIEW 5 FIX
F
Favicon & Branding
Action
1 icon(s) detected
FIX
1 icon(s) detected
Warning::
No favicon.ico at site root
Some older browsers, bookmark tools, and RSS readers look for /favicon.ico. Add one as a fallback.
Info::
HTML icon links detected
Info::
No apple-touch-icon detected
iOS devices use this when users add your site to their home screen. Add <link rel='apple-touch-icon' sizes='180x180' href='/apple-touch-icon.png'>.
✗ favicon.ico Missing
✓ PNG Icons Present
✗ Apple Touch Missing
✗ SVG Favicon Missing
✗ Manifest Icons Missing
✗ Multiple Sizes Missing
D
Web Manifest
Action
Not found
FIX
Not found
Info::
No web manifest found
No manifest at standard paths (/manifest.json, /site.webmanifest). A manifest is optional but enables PWA features like home screen installation and standalone display.

No web manifest found.

D
Dark Mode Support
Action
No dark mode signals
FIX
No dark mode signals
Info::
No dark mode signals detected
Consider adding CSS with @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and <meta name='color-scheme' content='light dark'>.
Info::
Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles
External CSS files may contain prefers-color-scheme rules not visible to this scan.
Dark ModeNo Dark Mode Detected
color-scheme meta Not set ✗Dark theme-color Not set ✗CSS indicators Not detected ✗

Detection limited to meta tags and inline styles.

D
Print Stylesheet
Action
No print styles
FIX
No print styles
Info::
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 ✗
D
Navigation UX
Action
2 navigation pattern(s)
FIX
2 navigation pattern(s)
Info::
Skip navigation link detected
Info::
Back-to-top link detected
Info::
2 navigation landmark(s) detected
Breadcrumbs
Search
Skip Link Skip link detected
Labeled Navigation 2 <nav> element(s)
Back to Top
Hamburger Menu
Sticky Navigation Cannot reliably detect (CSS-based)
3 of 6 testable patterns navigation patterns detected. Strong navigation UX with multiple discovery paths.
B
404 Error Page
HTTP 404, custom page
REVIEW
HTTP 404, custom page
Info::
Correct 404 status code returned
Got: HTTP 404
Info::
Custom styled 404 page
Info::
Navigation links present on 404 page
Info::
Homepage link present on 404 page
404 Page Quality ✓ Custom 404 Page
Status Code HTTP 404 ✓Page Title Penn Home ✓Custom Styling ✓Navigation ✓Homepage Link ✓Search Form ✗
A+
Landmark Structure
18 landmarks
PASS
18 landmarks
Info::
<main> landmark present
Info::
2 <nav> landmark(s) found
Info::
All <nav> elements are properly labeled
Info::
Skip navigation link present
Page Structure — as a screen reader sees it
BANNER header NAV "Primary" MAIN CONTENTINFO footer
A+
Heading Hierarchy
92 headings
PASS
92 headings
Info::
Single H1 present
  • H3 Arts & Humanities
  • H1 The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
  • H2 News
  • H3 Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
  • H3 Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
  • H3 What happens when an iceberg melts?
  • H3 Blood test predicts kidney failure risk to Black Americans years before onset
  • H3 Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
  • H2 News
  • H3 The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
  • H3 Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
  • H3 The art of retelling ancient stories: A Q&A with Steven Weitzman
  • H3 Music, friendship, and a podcast on the side
  • H3 Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center
  • H3 Studying Shakespeare through the lens of love
  • H2 News
  • H3 Damon Centola named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
  • H3 Exploring the history of North American pastels
  • H3 New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
  • H3 Blending empathy and analytics
  • H3 Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire
  • H3 Cutting through the cluttered media landscape
  • H2 News
  • H3 Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
  • H3 Five things to know about private credit
  • H3 Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
  • H3 A look inside the political economy of early America
  • H3 Wharton faculty on love, finance, AI, and the Olympics
  • H3 Allison Hoffman: Connecting health care policy to people’s lives
  • H2 News
  • H3 What happens when an iceberg melts?
  • H3 Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
  • H3 The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
  • H3 Caitlyn Chen’s path to becoming a physician-scientist
  • H3 Shujie Yang harnesses sound to build the next generation of microrobotic medicine
  • H3 Building better delivery vehicles for medicine
  • H2 News
  • H3 Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
  • H3 A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
  • H3 René Vidal: Taking AI to the next level
  • H3 Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
  • H3 Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI
  • H3 Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
  • H2 News
  • H3 How a free medical telesimulation platform is saving children’s lives
  • H3 Blood test predicts kidney failure risk to Black Americans years before onset
  • H3 Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
  • H3 Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
  • H3 A new hub for AI-driven RNA research
  • H3 How ‘The Pitt’ lands with a Penn emergency department nurse
  • H2 News
  • H3 A spring outlook on campus
  • H3 Awards, accolades, and honors across the Penn community
  • H3 Class of 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced
  • H3 For rowing’s Cole Riedinger, leadership is about responsibility
  • H3 Penn Medicine student awarded a 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
  • H3 Penn’s Open Enrollment 2026-2027
  • H2 News
  • H3 Learning from the practitioners of statecraft
  • H3 Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground
  • H3 Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
  • H3 Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
  • H3 Understanding Japan’s snap elections
  • H3 Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India
  • H3 Technology
  • H2 Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
  • H2 Upcoming Events
  • H3 Book Talk: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary
  • H3 AI Month: AI-Informed Activities to Support Learning
  • H3 2026 Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
  • H2 Federal Government Updates
  • H2 Title IX Compliance in Athletics
  • H2 Penn Priorities
  • H3 In Principle & Practice
  • H3 Climate and Sustainability Action Plan
  • H3 Campaign for Community
  • H3 Research & Innovation
  • H3 Penn Forward
  • H3 In Principle & Practice
  • H3 Climate and Sustainability Action Plan
  • H3 Campaign for Community
  • H3 Research & Innovation
  • H3 Penn Forward
  • H3 In Principle & Practice
  • H3 Climate and Sustainability Action Plan
  • H3 Campaign for Community
  • H3 Research & Innovation
  • H2 Stay Connected
  • H3 Follow us on social media
  • H3 Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination at Penn
  • H2 Navigate
  • H2 Penn's Heritage
A
Alt Text Quality
All 82 images OK
PASS
All 82 images OK
Info::
5 image(s) with alt text over 125 characters
Info::
1 decorative image(s) correctly marked
Info::
76 image(s) with good alt text
82 images 76 good alt text 1 decorative
IssueCount
too long5 image(s)
A+
Form Accessibility
All 1 controls labeled
PASS
All 1 controls labeled
Info::
1 control(s) properly labeled
1 controls
1 labeled
0 placeholder only
0 unlabeled
ControlTypeLabelMethod
#search__inputinputSearchfor/id
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)
ElementRatioRequiredFGBGResult
h1 The performing arts …21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 News21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Upcoming Events21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Federal Government U…21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Title IX Compliance …21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Penn Priorities21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Stay Connected21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Navigate21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h2 Penn's Heritage21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h3 Arts & Humanities21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h3 Technology21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
Pass
h3 In Principle & Pract…21.00:13.0:1
#000000
#FFFFFF
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 100/100 — 0 failing, 28 passed
PASS
100

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.

○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
●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
●`[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
●`[user-scalable="no"]` is not used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element and the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is not less than 5.
●ARIA attributes are used as specified for the element's role
●`[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 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
●Touch targets have sufficient size and spacing.
●Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order
●Document has a main landmark.
●Deprecated ARIA roles were not used
●Identical links have the same purpose.
●Elements with visible text labels have matching accessible names.
○`[accesskey]` values are unique
○`button`, `link`, and `menuitem` elements have accessible names
○Elements with `role="dialog"` or `role="alertdialog"` have accessible names.
○ARIA input fields have accessible names
○ARIA `meter` elements have accessible names
○ARIA `progressbar` elements have accessible names
○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
○Form elements have associated labels
○Links are distinguishable without relying on color.
○The document does not use `<meta http-equiv="refresh">`
○`<object>` elements have alternate text
○Select elements have associated label elements.
○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.
○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.

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